Aug. 1998.
2nd International Festival of Experimental Art and Performance Manege, St. Petersburg, exhibition "Instead of Jubilee", Zapasny Palace, Tsarskoe Selo

"Cradle-song", performance, installation

Materials: Aquarium, toys, cigarettes, lighter, my drawings and letters from when I was a child.

Action: A child’s world – a doll’s room - is recreated at the bottom of an empty aquarium. Aquarium is placed at the highest place of the balustrade of Zapasny Palace.
I stand still inside the aquarium looking into the distance.
I smoke and burn letters and drawings until the bottom of aquarium disappear under the ashes.

Duration: 1,5 hours