А. Монастырский, Н. Панитков, И. Макаревич, Е. Елагина, С ...

disassembled it. And accompanied by M.K., he started walking towards the viewers unreeling the tape
from the cassette. Monastyrski and Romashko did the same with the blue sledge, the tape-recorder and
the tape with Monastyrski‘s speech.
As the tapes fluttered in the wind, the organizers estimated the number of viewers and cut the tape into 17
pieces (one piece for each viewer), then they put them into small transparent plastic bags and handed one
to each of the viewers as performance documentation (factography).
Also enclosed inside these bags were factographic labels – rectangular pieces of cardboard (4.5 х 8.5 см.),
with the following text on one side: ―CA. Fisherman. 20.3.2000. Losinyj Ostrov, Abramtsevo), and a
color print – an image of a ceramic figure of the Chinese ―Fisherman‖ (a famous classic figure).
Then, the viewers were offered the possibility of looking at this figure using binoculars. The ―Fisherman‖
figure was installed before the start of the performance; it was situated on the snowy field, 80 – 100
meters distance from the viewers‘ position and behind the route of the sledges. The height of the figure
was 20 cm and so it was impossible to see it with the naked eye.
The figure remained on the field after the viewers and organizers had left the field. This figure had been
used in the first part of the performance: during the recording of A.M.-N.P.‘s dialogue it had been
standing on a table between the tape-recorders.
20 th of March 2000.
Moscow Region, Losinyj Ostrov (behind MCAR), near Abramtsevo village.
A.Monastyrski, N.Panitkov, S.Romashko, E.Elagina, M.Konstantinova, I.Makarevich
88. RED NUMBERS (for Y. Albert)
In a ―Globus‖ supermarket (in Bohum, Germany), using a microphone and tape recorder, Y. Albert read
aloud for 15 minutes. He read aloud the prices (only the numbers not the product‘s names) of products
from a different grocery and manufactured products store.
Then, in a campus of the University of Ruhr, he was asked to listen to a tape recording and write down
105 numbers using a red marker at the bottom margin of an A0 size piece of paper. This sheet was a
photocopy taken from the book ―Snuff bottles from China‖, by Helen White, Bamboo Publishing Ltd.,
London, 1992 (plate 11). Then he was asked to add up all of these numbers using a calculator and to
write down the total using a black marker, writing the figure below the red numbers. The result was –
3148,58.
After this the copy was given to Y.Albert, he was asked to exhibit this as his own artwork and to try to
sell it for the total of the 105 red numbers i.e. 3148,58 (marks in Germany, dollars in USA, pounds in
England, etc)
Bohum
29 4.2000
A. Monastyrski, S. Haensgen
89. THE SECOND SPEECH
Inside a pedestrian crossing (shaped like a glass tube), above the MCAR (Moscow Circle Auto Road),
N.Alekseev made a 9 minutes speech in the presence of 15 viewers. The viewers had been brought to this