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

On the fringes of the forest, a picture (55x80 cm) was attached to a tree facing the field. This picture
was a reproduction from a North Korean art album made from oil on cardboard. Shortly after, the
trees between the picture and the field (undergrowth) were cut down (approximately 80 trees). A
wire was stretched between the two remaining trees and an upside down umbrella and some branches
soaked in flammable liquid were attached to the wire. Participants turned on a tape-recording –
consisting of noises and sounds of a railroad depot (3 minutes 50 seconds), and then the umbrella was
set on fire. After that, white rope was stretched from the sides of the picture to the trees with the
burned umbrella - together they formed a trapezoid with the following dimensions: the length of wire
with the umbrella - 3,3m; picture width - 55cm; rope‘s length (distance between picture and umbrella)
- 18 m; wire height - 210cm; height to the bottom of picture - 133cm; width of the cut down area -
9m. All objects were left at the scene.
Moscow region, Kievogorskoe field
November 6, 2002
A.Monastyrski, N.Panitkov, E.Elagina, I.Makarevich, S.Romashko,
M.Konstantinova, D.Novgorodova.
98. “14 : 07 - 15 : 13” (39-52) (Action with Clocks)
In a forest, in a small glade, (at the site where the ―Library‖ action was made), a round watch (D-25 cm)
was attached above the snow. Viewers and organizers tied an end of white rope, (coiled on a bobbin and
about 1 km length), to the watch, then turned on a tape-recording (the tape recorder was in a back pack
carried by S.Romashko) and started moving through the forest. Whilst moving they uncoiled the rope and
attached it to every few trees in order to keep it taut.
The tape-recording consisted of chronologically taped articles by north-pole researchers: E.T.Krenkel
―Radio station UPOL‖ and Y.K.Fedorov ―Astronomical definitions‖ (from the book ―Works by drifting
station ‗North Pole‘‖, publ. Glavsevmorput, 1940). At the end of the tape-recording was a fragment of
M.Heidegger‘s article ―Time and Entity‖. After they had walked 400 metres through the forest, the group
stopped. The organizers used the same rope to attach the working tape recorder between the trees at a
height of 150 cm. The tape recorder was put in a white fur case.
After that A.Monastyrski bound black thread to the tape recorder‘s case and started moving through the
forest reeling out the thread and coiling it around tree trunks. He moved toward the vista, located
approximately 200 metres away from viewers. Between two trees, on the same thread, A.M and M.K.
hung up a small framed portrait of Heidegger (6.5x9 cm). On the reverse of the portrait with black
marker was written: ―39-52‖. (―39‖ – according to the ―CA list of places‖ this is the number of the place
of the ―Library‖ performance, the same place at which the watches are now attached; ―52‖ – is the
anticipated final location of this action).
Then A.M. and M.K. joined the viewers and they continued moving through the forest continuing to reel
out the rope. They left the tape recorder playing the recording of Krenkels‘ text, this was now out of the
group‘s audibility. The group emerged on the edge of nearby field (located south-east from
Kievogorskoe field; the whole route was about 1 km). Here the organizers, using the same rope, hung up
the second watch (D-42cm), tilting it towards the field, and attaching it much higher than the first one.
Organizers reeled about 100 m more of rope (attached to watch) and handed each of the viewers a
document – this consisted of 2 laminated photos from the book, ―27 months on a drifting ship‘‘ by
George Sedov publ. Glavmorsevput, 1940. They used lengths of rope to tie up these two pictures of polar
experiences.
After the document had been distributed, the second part of the title of the performance was made - the
second watch showed ―15 (hours) 13 (minutes)‖ (the first part of the title – ―14 (hours) 07 (minutes)‖ –
was defined by the time on the first watch at the moment when the tape-recording was turned on and
movement through the forest with the rope began).