BOCHUM ACTIONS
ROSE GARDEN
For A. Alchuk and M. Ryklin
We invited Anna Alchuk and Mikhail Ryklin to the action and at the beginning used colored ribbons to fasten toy cars with little rubber bears to their heads. While walking through the rosarium, Alchuk and Ryklin copied the names of the different types of roses from the metal plates into notebooks. At the same time S.H. and A.M. were reading the text of the dialogue “Where is Anja?” into the microphone of a recording video camera. (A.M. read S.H.’s lines in Russian, and S.H. read A.M.’s lines in German.) In the end, Alchuk and Ryklin also read the notes in their notebooks into the video camera.
Moscow, Tsitsin Botanic Garden
July 22, 1991
S. Hänsgen, A. Monastyrski