Collective actions
Индивидуальные акции, имеющие отношение к 10 тому ПЗГ
Individual actions related to Trips to the Countryside” for the tenth volume of Trips to the Countryside
S. Haensgen, A. Monastyrski
BERMUDA
In view of the web-cam on the site www.martin-bochum.dyndns.org/index_pic.php, S. Haensgen performed manipulations on two umbrellas – one purple, one blue. The umbrellas were laid out in the snow in different spots on a blocked-off area near the entrance to the complex “Bermuda” (city of Bochum). The arrangement of the umbrellas was agreed upon by mobile telephone with A. Monastyrski, who observed the action from Moscow through the site’s web-cam.
The action lasted approximately one half hour, starting at 1:00 pm (3:00 pm Moscow time). After which, S. Haensgen departed, leaving the opened umbrellas in the place of action.
8 January 2009
Bochum – Moscow, www.martin-bochum.dyndns.org/index_pic.php
S. Haensgen
JENA
In the courtyard of the house-museum of the Romantics (in which Johann Gottlieb Fichte once lived), under the mailbox, an installation was erected from the descriptive text of the action "ROPE / Deutsche Romantiker" by "Collective Actions", designed in a "golden" frame, and a Chinese figurine "chicken" placed on a "golden" box as a pedestal. (A similar chicken figurine was supposed to be used in the scene with the image of a fox on a saucer in the action "Rope", but the episode was not carried out).
26. 8. 2007
Jena
SLOGAN 2007 (owl and scoop)
On the fence at the foot of the holy mountain Acropolis, framed under glass, a photograph of an owl and a scoop from the action of the CA "Slogan 1986" was hung.
Athens, 29 May 2007
СХ, German romantics
Installation, Stuttgart 2007
A. Monastyrsky
JOURNEY TO THE WEST
In the northwestern section of the forest clearing, where the books of the CA Library are buried, the end of a dark red rope 50 meters long was laid on the ground; the rope itself - in the direction of the participants' movement into the depths of the forest - was unwound along the ground to a suitable tree, on the trunk of which a frame under glass 10x15 cm was fixed with a portrait of the composer and musicologist Egon Wellesz inserted into it against a purple background and a signature under it in white in letters: “There were several of them, young strong-toothed Caucasians. They surrounded me in a dense semicircle, squeezing me in a pissed and filthy corner” (quote from the novel “Cathedral Square” by the Rostov writer Yu. Z. Ivanov-Milyuhin, 1995).
Then the frame with the portrait was wrapped with a red velvet ribbon 10 meters long, and the end of the rope was tied to the place of wrapping, leading to a clearing with books. Before starting the action, the participants discovered that the iron turtle, fixed in a recess in the ground in the center of the clearing, was completely flooded with water. The action was held as the final within the framework of the 4th meeting of V. Zakharov, Y. Leiderman and A. Monastyrsky.
Participants of the action: D. Novgorodova, E. Elagina, I. Makarevich, Y. Leiderman,
V. Zakharov.
Forest near the Kievogorsk field
April 16, 2008
PRESENT AT THE ROGOZHSKOE CEMETERY
As part of the fifth meeting of the Kapiton group at the burial site of the Old Believer hierarchy at the Rogozhsky cemetery (“Forest of White Crosses”), AM presented VZ and YL with two collages 20 x 30 cm framed under glass, made up of screen shots of the computer game Wizardry VII, in which AM played in 1993 and started playing again in May of this year, naming the party members in the game by the names "Zakharov", "Leider", "Panitok", "AM", "Makar" and "Elagina".
On the collage handed over to the VZ, a screenshot was placed with a portrait, characteristics and equipment of the character “Zakharov” (level 9 in the game), in whose inventory a schedule of Old Believer burials of 1771-1905 was mounted, and on the left was a black-and-white photograph of “Merry mountains" with a group of Old Believers-chapels at the grave of monk Gregory.
On the collage handed to the YL, there was a similar sheet of the character “Leider” (level 9) with the same schedule, to the left of it there was a collage with a fragment of the Kievogorsk field with the places of actions of the KD marked on it, a photograph of the 15th performance by Dim Blaine and a monument on the grave of Captain 1st Rank Periodorogi from the Miussky cemetery. Above and below this collage were placed five "brands" with images of creatures from the game Wizardry VII, and on the sixth (of the same size and shape) - a group with the Old Believer metropolitan in the center and Y. Luzhkov to his right.
Presentation of the collages was accompanied by a phonogram of a sound fragment from the game Wizardry (the scene of the battle with "carrot-shaped" creatures MAN O'GROVES) lasting 1 min 58 sec (the recorder with the recording was in the AM pocket).
Moscow, Rogozhskoye cemetery
May 21, 2008
