TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov
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)
