>> Heroes of Our Time << - A Moscow Portrait, 1996, Gallery A3, Moscow
Installation, Performance
Installation, Performance
Room 1:
Audience, 2 bodyguards, poet, photographs, and drawings of >> Heroes of Our Time <<,
Audience, 2 bodyguards, poet, photographs, and drawings of >> Heroes of Our Time <<,
red carpet, rubber objects.
At a distance of ten steps, two duelists face each other, armed with mobile phones –
two former KGB members who have been working as bodyguards since 1996.
A poet reads excerpts from a duel scene in the novel >> A Hero of Our Time << (1840)
A poet reads excerpts from a duel scene in the novel >> A Hero of Our Time << (1840)
by the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. The pistol shot is the quick dialing of the correct phone number.
The vernissage was dissolved at midnight by the Moscow mafia ...
Room 2:
Audience, Moscow beauty J, bodyguard, poet, red carpet, rubber object.
A poet reads poems by Mikhail Lermontov from 1838 about beautiful Russian women.
Audience, Moscow beauty J, bodyguard, poet, red carpet, rubber object.
A poet reads poems by Mikhail Lermontov from 1838 about beautiful Russian women.
Beauty J walks back and forth on the red carpet – guarded by a bodyguard.
Artist Branko Šmon, Moscow beauty J, Bodyguard