TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov

CONTEMPLATING THE GOLDEN AXE

Performance/installation

1990, November

Location: “Sadovniky” gallery, Moscow; TOTART exhibition “Glasgow - Moscow”

Duration: About 2 hours

Material: Man & woman, “Classic TOTART Object (The Golden Axe)” (1987) (bamboo fasces with golden axe on bamboo saw-horse)

Artists sit motionlessly by both sides of “ The Golden Axe” (at the same time Paul Panhuysen from Holland made his musical performance).