TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov
16 POSITIONS FOR SELFIDENTIFICATION
OR GOLD ROOM
Performance
1985, May
Location: Artists’ flat
Duration: 1,5 hours and a week show
Material: Human bodies, a room 530x300x250 cm with white papered walls, gold and red paints, brushes.
A.Z. outlines N.A.’s body in different positions beginning from eastern corner to western one, then N.A. makes the same with A.Z.’s body from western corner to eastern one. Then she paints A.Z. red, A.Z. paints her gold and they “disappear” in Red and Golden Corners accordingly. (Fulltime video- and 20 min. 16 mm film documentation)