TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov
IN SUCH A COLD WEATHER
Action
1985, February, 19
Location: A field in Orechovo-Borisovo, Moscow
Duration: 1 hour
Material: human bodies, snow, a sheet of polyethylene 300X500 cm, black nitroenamel, small red flags (a sort they use in wolf hunting)
Artists walk toward each other from opposite sides of a deep-snowed field leaving behind small red flags. When meeting they unfold a large slogan with russian and english text and put it away on snow so that it can be seen only for birds, planes and sputniks. (Film 16 mm)