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TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov

FLOOR POLISHERS

FLOOR POLISHERS

Performance

1984, November

Location: Artists’flat

Duration:1 hour

Material: Human bodies, 2 floor-polishing brushes, a peephole for viewers.

Artists polish the floor undressing in the process viewers looking through the peephole which makes banality of movements a peepshow (combination of “Duchamp effect”- peeping - and “estrangement effect” of peephole) and a primordial rite. (Film 16 mm)

 

FLOOR POLISHERS

TOTART: Actions, performances. Installations

MOSCOW CONCEPTUALISM

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