Volume 16 of KD PZG continues the KD Annals from 1976 onward, maintaining a chronological ordering of actions year by year. The division into volumes is, most likely, intuitive, marking what we perceive as distinct stages within the flow of aesthetic activity. Compiling the KD PZG Annals means assembling almost unprocessed primary sources—a body of material for future research. Its subsequent processing, interpretation, and historical analysis are matters for historians rather than for us.

In the new actions, the discourse of emptiness ("empty action") has all but disappeared. What remains is only the decoration, design, and ornamentation of what was once that emptiness. The actions are carried out purely out of habit. There is no standing still simply because the actions continue one after another in chronological succession, producing a mechanical movement forward. Of the DZF (Demonstrational Sign Field), only minor decorative residue remains, while the expanding EZF (Expositional Sign Field) increasingly occupies the central textual space of the actions: the construction of the Northern Bypass highway around Lobnya, new gas pipeline clearings, QR codes, and so forth.

The principal event and aesthetic investigation in the new KD actions lies in the transgressive interaction between the EZF and the DZF. The energetic predominance of the EZF has become so overwhelming that the DZF is reduced almost to zero, surviving only as decoration.

QR codes have replaced the slogans that dominated the early stages of KD actions. Through these QR codes, the surrounding Expositional Sign Field is investigated. Considered from the perspective of QR codes, this field belongs to the broader global problematics of the world's digitalization and the virtualization of human existence.

QR codes do not allow information to be perceived directly through the senses—it can neither be seen nor read. Access to the information can only be decoded through technical devices. On the visible, artistic level of the "picture," the viewer encounters only geometric abstraction, only design.

The existential energy of this continuing practice lies precisely in the insistence on pursuing the line of actions without commission and even in opposition to society. One could say that the addressees of these new actions are plants, insects, dogs, and the deities described in the section "GODS" of Volume 6 of Trips Out of Town.

A. Monastyrsky, S. Hänsgen
11 July 2026