TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov
THE GOLDEN VOLUNTARY SUNDAY
Totartaction
1985, June
Location: Territory around building 130, Kashirskoie sh.
Duration: ca. 3 hours
Material: Handwritten poster, golden oil-paint, brushes, fences, benches, litter receptacles
“Supervisor series” and “Golden series” final work. A traditional “Voluntary Sunday” (free of charge public work - putting in order territory around block of flats, for example) was declared, during which all the fences, benches and litters around were painted with gold - pure esthetic intervention taking in account that gold in russian mentality is sacral colour of icons and graveyards while in soviet system of values - that of State & Power.
