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Feel Yourself a Tiger, 2001, видео как перформанс, 2 мин. Первоначально это была инсталляция в британском посольстве на выставке посвященной защите усурийских тигров летом 2001, где куратором была Мария Чуйкова.
30th-Mar-2001 11:50 pm - Anton Litvin. "The War".
Антон Литвин – перформанс «Война». Москва, Молодежный еврейский клуб, 20 марта 2001
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March 2001, Rеgina Gallery, exhibition “Our soft and tender animal”

Materials:
My body, a bandage, a bottle of French perfume, razor blade, thread.
Action:
I am naked. I have a bandage over my eyes.
I move blindfold through the gallery space during the opening of the exhibition dedicated to Kulik’s jubilee.
I mark all men that I meet by spraying them with perfume and raining them with my hair which I simultaneously cut from the head at the same time with a razor blade.

31st-Dec-2000 05:40 pm - All performances for 2000
Oleg Kulik. "Pigeonhouse" - performance,  CCA, Warsaw. 22.01-27.02. 2000. images
Oleg Kulik. Two Kuliks. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 17 May 2001Demonstration.
Dmitri Gutov
& RADEK group, 2000."
Oleg Mavromatti.
Citizen X - Guelman’s gallery, Moscow. 2000
Oleg Mavromatti. The Voice of the Black Hole. 2000
Oleg Mavromatti. Telesud (TV trial), a mock trial against O. Mavromatti, on the National Russian TV. 2000
Oleg Mavromatti.
The Big Cleaning up - cleaning action of Dzerzinski’s monument, Moscow. 2000
Oleg Mavromatti
. Do not Believe your Eyes! - 1st April, 2000, Institute of Culturology, Bersenevskaya Nabereznaya, Moscow. 
Oleg Mavromatti.
Do not Kill! (dedicated to every single virtual soldier, killed in the electronic games); May, 9-th, 2000; The Celebration Day of German capitulation after the Second World War, Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow. 2000
Oleg Mavromatti. ENDING PERFORMANCE (performance)- together with Emperor Vava, TV Gallery, Moscow (2000)
Elena Kovylina. Time for sleeping, Vahtangov's theatre, 01.04.2000
Elena Kovylina. Forgotten things, Moscow, 01.03.2000
Elena Kovylina. Rescue my soul, Sotchi, International Forum of Modern Art "Sea", 19.10.2000
Elena Kovylina. Heroines from the East, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, 15.07.2000
Elena Kovylina. The glossy cover, Art Forum Moskow, 25.06.2000
Elena Kovylina. 
A light lunch, Moscow, 01.06.2000
Elena Kovylina.  Absence of a hero, 01.05.2000
30th-Dec-2000 07:57 pm - Liza Morozova. "Untuchable reserve"
III International Festival of Experimental Arts & Performance Art, Manezh, S-Petersburg
performance, installation (together with V. Bystrov)"



http://www.escapeprogram.ru/english/members/liza/l4.htm
30th-Dec-2000 07:48 pm(no subject)
Liza Morozova."Liza and the Dead
ESCAPE Gallery, International Fair "Art Manege".


It was the first piece of nonspectacular (invisible) art on the Moscow art scene. First it was exhibited in the ESCAPE Gallery, and then at the "Art Manege" fair. The installation included a series of "portraits" of great people, whom the members of the project consider to be "the patriarchs of performance". The installation represented the room of an artist Liza Marozova, where among other possessions were the signs that reminded of that characters of the past: "Chapaevskiy's" bread sticks, a cup with a portrait of Leo Tolstoy, a business card of "Caligula" department store and a "Casanova" stationery bike.
This way of exhibiting the "portraits" of the great performers of the past was chosen for the reason that their images, according to the members of the project, have so deeply sunk into mass culture and gained new meanings, that it's impossible to extract them back.
During the whole period of exposition Liza Morozova lived in the installation, permanently typing up on the computer the names of the "dead" characters mixed up with the names of exhibition's visitors.



"International Art Fair "Art-Manezh", Moscow (non-profit program).  Ttogether with ESCAPE group)
http://www.escapeprogram.ru/english/members/liza/l8.htm
30th-Dec-2000 07:39 pm(no subject)
Liza Morozova. "Slow way-2"

Materials: my body, videocamera, videomonitor, color beads.
Action: I am naked. My eyes are tied. My ears are stopped up. Switched on videocamera is fixed on my head. Slowly I grope along the space of S-Peterburgian Manezh.I feel my way by touch, marking all tactile events with color beads which I keep in my mouth. When I reach the opposite side of Manezh I watch the videotape, returning me sounds and visual images which I missed, depriving my sight and hearing.
Duration: 25 min.
http://www.escapeprogram.ru/english/members/liza/l6.htm
30th-Dec-2000 07:37 pm - Liza Morozova. "Quality of Cold"
 together with Gates art-group and Walcheturm Gallery (Zurich), 21 Gallery, S-Petersburg
"Near and Around", performance"
http://www.escapeprogram.ru/english/members/liza/l9.htm
Zverevskiy Contemporary Art Center, Moscow

Anton Litvin.

http://www.escapeprogram.ru/english/projects/p4.html
1st-Dec-2000 06:10 pm - Oleg Mavromatti. The Big Cleaning up
cleaning action of Dzerzinski’s monument, Moscow"
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22nd-Sep-2000 05:52 pm - Oleg Mavromatti. Citizen X
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On Sept 22-nd, 18 p.m. local time Oleg Mavromatti will crucify himself (on real boards in the form of an "X" nailed with real nails) in Guelman Gallery, Moscow. This action is part of a series of actions and performances of Mavromatti, which started in the spring of 2000.
http://roboriada.org/supernova/pages/citizen_x_performance.htm
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From Alexander Brener

Another work we want to mention is an intervention at the press conference of Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana. We came to this new European Biennial with leaflets and spray cans. When the press conference started we kind of occupied the panel, sprayed a slogan on the huge screen, made noise and handed out leaflets. The slogan was: “Demolish neo-liberalist multicultural art system now!” Bodyguards came and dragged us out of the hall. Three hours later we were arrested by Slovenian secret police in the streets. Ha-ha-ha-ha!

The Necessity Of A Cultural Revolution
(Alexander Brener, Barbara Schurz; 02/2002)

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9th-May-2000 06:34 pm - Do Not Kill!

9 of May, Poklonnaia Gora (Second Word War Soldier's Memorial), Moscow
(dedicated to every single virtual soldier, killed in electronic games)


“Do Not Kill - Blood for Bytes, Bytes for Blood!" (dedicated to every single virtual soldier, killed in the e;ectronic games); May, 9-th, 2000; The Celebration Day of German capitulation after the Second World War, Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow.
Mavromatti is tight to a tree in the park of the Soldier's Memorial. On his brest, near the heard the word "KILL" is carved by a rasor.
The assistant (Egipetskii Mag) brand's Mavromatti's brest with the singn of pacifism over the word "KILL".
http://roboriada.org/supernova/pages/do_not_kill.htm

1st-May-2000 06:31 pm - Elena Kovylina. Time for sleeping
Elena Kovylina. Time for sleeping  Vahtangov's theatre 01.04.2000


1st April, 2000, Institute of Culturology, Bersenevskaya Nabereznaya, Moscow.
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“Do Not Believe Your Eyes” was a scene of the movie “Oil on Canvas”, on which Mavromatti was working at this time as director and actor. This action is dedicated to the idea of pain as an obligatory part the artistic catharsis and the art of the artist. At the same time it was a political statement against the union of religion and the state power (a phenomena in Russia in the 90’s, after the change of the political system), which underestimates the faith itself as a basic right of the human being and becomes obligatory serve of the state interests.
"This action was also against the ideological pressure of the newly-powered religious institutions on the freedom of speech and artistic expression.>>>>> )
1st-Mar-2000 06:22 pm(no subject)
Elena Kovylina. Forgotten things. Moscow 01.03.2000

  

The work, along with Pigeonhouse, is actually part of a broader project named Zoophrenia and concerning the theme of 'Animal as human being's alter-ego', or, 'Animal as the anthropomorphic Alien'. The project is devoted to contacts of man-of-culture with other natural species treated as equal-rank beings.
1st-Jan-2000 05:30 pm - Demonstration. RADEK group, 2000.


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Demonstration is a movie showing a performance by the "Radek" group (a group of young left radical artists from Moscow). There were few participants, and in order to create a demonstration they chose a crowded place.see )

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31st-Dec-1999 05:35 pm - 1999
Radek group. Mausoleum. 09.12.1999
Elena Kovylina. The Babylonic Tower, Ovjedo, 06.11.1999
Elena Kovylina.  Green Apples, Arsakan village, Armenia, 20.07.1999
Elena Kovylina. Being on a visit fairy-tale, ACT-99, Center of Modern Art, Moscow, 15.07.1999
Elena Kovylina. Do it yourself, Zwerev’s center of contemporary art, Moscow, 01.01.1999
17 декабря в 13.00 перед журфаком МГУ на Моховой прошла акция кампании "Против всех партий" и, одновременно - начинающейся кампании бойкота телевизионной информации. Один из участников акции озвучил текст листовки, прилагаемой к данному выпуску, другой металлическим ломом разбил три телевизора. Толпа студентов и некоторые приглашенные зрители наблюдали событие.
Вечером 17 декабря в Институте Современного Искусства прошла презентация сборника "Против всех партий", сайта кампании, и концерт Павла Шевченко.
18 декабря в 13.30 состоялась акция "Красное на красном", посвященная парламентским выборам и чеченской войне. Трое активистов забросали центральный подъезд Госдумы бутылками с красной краской. Один из них, а также фотограф, были задержаны.
http://getto.ru/act/02b.html
6th-Nov-1999 06:14 pm - The Babylonic Tower
Ovjedo 06.11.1999

18th-Oct-1999 07:33 pm - Liza Morozova. "Slow Way"
Oct. 1999, Salzau Cultural Centre, Germany

Materials:
Chestnuts, handkerchief.
Instructions:
I, naked and blindfold, very slowly move from one wall of the gallery to another.
I mark my path with chestnuts.
I blindly return to the base point, orientating myself by the chestnuts.
Duration: 15 min.
http://www.escapeprogram.ru/english/members/liza/l20.htm
20th-Jul-1999 05:52 pm(no subject)
Elena Kovylina. Green Apples. Arsakan village, Armenia 20.07.1999



In the spring of 1999 I was invited to Erevan, the capital of Armenia, to take part in one exhibition.
After having acquainted with neighbourhoods and enviroments I was most surprised at the women’s lifestyle. Women who live in armenian villages never sit down at the table together with men, never with the guests, they only serve everybody and spend their time in a kitchen.
We visited several houses of popular armenian people and everywhere I saw the same.

9th-May-1999 06:48 pm - Radek group. Mausoleum
Radek group. Mausoleum. 09.12.1999
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1st-Jan-1999 05:45 pm - Elena Kovylina. Do it yourself
Zwerev’s center of contemporary art, Moscow 01.01.1999 within the exhibition “Saljut attrakcion”, curated by K. Zvezdochetov



I’m applying myself to the problem of choosing within the life of a woman-artist.
On this matter there’s a lot of feminist literature, for a while it has become an imporant problem of my own life.
I’m standing on a stool with a loop around my neck. On my breast I have a sign with instructions for the audience: you can see on it a leg kicking my stool.
The duration of this performance is two hours.

31st-Dec-1998 11:20 pm - 1998
Radek group. "Barricada". 23.05.1998
Oleg Kulik.  Two Kuliks. Art Center 'Ark', Riga, 4 November 1998 >>>images
Oleg Kulik.
White Man, Black Dog. Gallery Kapelica, Ljubljana, 7 October 1998
Elena Kovylina. Proektion, Gallery "New Kollegion" Sankt-Petersburg, 04.11.1998
Elena Kovylina. The exchage rate of rouble, Moscow, 01.05.1998
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