TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov
EVEN WATCH
Performance
1986, May, 28
Location: Artists’ flat
Duration: ca. 2 hours
Material: 4 participants, 4 mirrors, tape-recorder
Illumination: Special light in corners
Audiotape: Concrete music made by the artists (this recording was presented to J. Cage by his request by S. Golybina when their meeting in summer 1985 in Leningrad).
2 couples (man-woman) stand face to face making cross structure and “communicating” by means of mirrors trying to catch in his/her vis-a-vis’s mirror either self reflection or his/her one. Watching this “watch” presents relieve the guard each 5 min.