More than actionism

They had everything that I love so much: freedom, religion, sex, art and revolution. Our meeting with the art group “Scheme bread” (hereinafter-K.Kh) was inevitable. Here and there I heard about the mysterious team, which was active in Voronezh in 2005-2011. Some called them the synthet artists, others called them anarcho-satanist. Kramenochlabians make an accurate, relevant, critical statement, not trying to change the world, not counting on the response of the audience, without material interest. They act to act. But is it possible otherwise if you are alive?

I tried to find these people on the Internet for a long time, but I only fell on the confusing website of the School of Sociology without a feedback form and for numerous articles on the detention of corporators in 2010. After a couple of months of the search, I found out that the members of the sect can no longer be met in one place: someone went to St. Petersburg, someone went out the window, someone went crazy, the artist Pavel Brother generally emigrated to Montenegro. I wrote to different people almost without hope to collect the fragments of Voronezh actionism. And one fine day he himself contacted me. He suspected relations with the organs, asked to whom I rebuilt, did not say his name and age ... However, even more interesting.

Monk

Pastor Alexei (he is the Monk Andreas Chaoski, Felix, etc.) came to his native Voronezh in August of this year not just to visit spiritual brothers and sisters. He came to publish a rare book of the time of the October Revolution - Pimen Karpov’s “Light of Love” . His lyrics were published by the Bolsheviks, but in 1922, having read the book more carefully, they burned the entire circulation. Karpov was a simple, illiterate person who understood the revolution in his own way: in a mystical, apocalyptic sense, an uncomfortable regime.

“I have a secret person, he works in the archives, so I found a manuscript that was not published at all,” says the Monk. - I borrowed money, accumulated money, earned money ... The devil told me: “Take a mortgage, take the car ...” And I thought: I have to strive for another, to waste money so as not to collect it, and I published the book. The book was published yesterday (September 20, 2017), I have already sold 10 copies to scholarships and prostitutes. And this is a sign of the moment. I thought that my first buyers would be literary critics, philologists, cultural and intelligent people. Upon learning of the release of the book, they began to bless me around me and fill up with messages, trying to beg a book as a gift or exchange. I was struck that the very first book was sold to a girl who did not read books at all - she just has a kind soul! There is such a phrase in the New Testament that "the harlots and the youtari ahead of you will enter the Kingdom of Heaven." I think this is because they take the pain of the world closer, while the scribes and Pharisees remain at the departments. If I will repay all the costs and repay the debts, then the plans have something to publish something rare in order to go bankrupt 100%. ”

The book, by the way, is already sold in Moscow and St. Petersburg, it can also be found in the Voronezh library. Nikitin.

The activities of the art group in 2007-2010 continued the traditions of the Dadaists and situations, in places in its savagery resembled Viennic actionism of the 1970s. They arranged spontaneous exhibitions, flash mobs in the garbage dumps, scattered five minutes later, leaving their paintings for everyone for free, because art should belong to the people. Once, artists came to the museum to them. Kramskoy with dummies of machine guns, put up grandmothers over the door, shot paintings and hung their own instead of them. They proved that in order to exhibit, it is not necessary to break into the gallery, there are many free sites, and if necessary, they can be easily captured.

The most loud action , which was followed by the arrest, was the weight of a 15-meter banner with a quote from Nietzsche “Sleep calmly. God died ”on a passionate Friday of 2010 on the North Bridge.

Previously, the art group was engaged in public action, over time, more and more leaving for the rituals that were made not for the viewer, but to experience personal transgressive experience. For example, there was such an action "eating the Virgin in honey." The participants mothballed the icons of the Mother of God in banks with honey, entered the Orthodox Church during the worship and communed with this honey. Criticism of pseudo -Orthodox people's superstitions is evident, but at the same time no publicity.

"For those things that they do, you will not lose their souls"

A wild party is also known.

- we arbitrarily captured an abandoned building in the city center, - Says Andreas Chakoski. - The guard moved because we came with Kalash's mulyas. They put a smoke-machine, a strobe, paid for the work of prostitutes so that they were dancing. A frozen pork head was hung over the stage, she slowly melted, at the end of the party she was raped to a patch. We wanted to create five minutes of something that goes beyond the borders of the usual, plus deceive those people who will come there. We would have gone, and art lovers who supposedly to watch the performance would be captured by cops, but this did not happen. No one dispersed the party. Representatives of the organs entered, checked everything, nodded their heads and left. Journalists were invited there, and the event received a resonance in the press. During the interrogation, we were asked: "Why did you bring the pig?" We replied that we are an art group and are engaged in contemporary art. We came to the wording of the “art group” only so that we are not closed as a sect. We did not perform performances, but rituals. And rituals are not for everyone. This is for internal experience. It just happened that it still has a share of belonging to art.

- That is, you do the same as Pavlensky and Pussy Riot ?

- This is another. For those things that they do, you will not lose your soul.

“Why did you lose her?”

- So the process was interesting! For example, Andrei Platonov claims that the soul is a bourgeois invention. What to rush with her?!

- Did you use drugs?

- Never. And this is important. Revolutionary cells can not be associated with drug addicts and drunks.

- What is your last action?

- We picketed the trash on the putsch. It was August 19 this year.

After the persecution and interrogations of the ED department, the artists emigrated to Kyiv, where they took part in the rally of Alexander Volodarsky in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. On the icon, the face of Christ was replaced by Stalin and during the liturgy carried it to the temple. None of the parishioners noticed anything. The action clearly shows how easy the people replaced Christian idols with the leaders of communism, and after 70 years he returned everything back. The shareholders freely went into the first row, prayed on the icon of Stalin and put candles behind Putin's repose.

- Why didn't you stay in Kyiv? I ask the pastor. -After all, there is always some kind of seething, in Ukraine the last 15 years is an eternal revolution ...

- There was nothing to exist. Our reserves came to an end, we had to steal in stores.

- I did not expect. How do you get collapses, or something, do you steal in supermarkets?

- But what about! To steal in Auchan is most convenient. In the end, they became insolent so that they began to steal by flowers. Then they took pictures of it all, laid out on the site, handed it out to the poor ...

- And now you are stealing too?

- The last time I stole a pack of oil and got caught, but I got very funny. At the exit, they told me that I had a pack of oil in my pocket, I took it out, and money fell from my pocket, somewhere around 70,000 rubles (the last six years Alexei worked in the Hermitage). Just a day earlier I received a salary. And so they draw up a protocol, are surprised, see a lot of money and say: “If you can pay for this pack, it will not go beyond this protocol.”

- How do you feel about the ethical side of the issue?

- I do not find a big sin from large stores. Everything is laid for theft there. 80% of thefts are committed by store employees. And even if the shortage is deducted from the employee’s salary, thereby they exacerbate interclass contradictions. The employee immediately becomes unhappy, he goes against the authorities, and a revolution is being committed. Once I sent a letter to the Auchan employees: “Thank you for allowing you to steal”-and indicated the amount for which I brought out the goods this year. There was no answer. I do not feel sorry for the staff, because people agree to completely cattle working conditions and do not grumble.

"We are a church"

Kramenochlabians believe that the best that a contemporary artist can do is to shut up. In the twentieth century, the author died, and in XXI the viewer followed him. It turns out that art exists only for themselves: art historians write for art historians an incomprehensible language for people, critics write reviews for the initiates, artists go to exhibitions to each other ... So, the viewer has become not so important, art is closed in itself, and K.Kh is brought this situation to the grotesque. They make the documentation of the shares intentionally, avoid the viewer and any monetary relationship. You can’t sell the action, poor documentation too. And their art is as disgusting as possible.

“I am interested in the transgression process,” the pastor explains. - I want to find the border of what else can be stupid. I am interested in madness and chaos. In essence, we do the same as others in postmodern: we take old proven characters (crosses, swastika, etc.), bring to the absurdity and check their strength. We do not want to change the world, we do not give a damn about the viewer. Our goal is to test our internal boundaries and gain personal experience. I can explain what is the difference between contemporary art and what we do. We are a church, and therefore I like to draw parallels with the western and eastern forms of Christianity. The difference between how the confession of the Protestants and the Orthodox passes is that the first sinners repented publicly, and in the Byzantine tradition, on the contrary, reveals the soul one on one with the confessor. All contemporary art in the form in which we now know him has gone from the West. And he is characterized by active relations with the viewer, performativity, publicity (the desire to expose the fruit of his work for show, in the museum space, in the gallery, the desire to sell art or store, collect, collect). “Stolen bread” stands on the eastern side. He is in himself and for himself, he does not seek the viewer, does not involve him, does not attract him, and in no case does not seek to sell him, show, convey something and change the cultural code by this. ”

Father number two

All members of the sect are engaged in a wide variety of labor activities. One of them, Pavel Brother, is a successful contemporary artist, collaborates with the Anna St. Petersburg Gallery Nova , and now lives with a family in a village in Montenegro. The pseudonym "Brother" is the religious name of Paul, received during his corporate activity in his native Voronezh.

Pastor Alexei about Paul Brother: “We influenced him from a religious point of view, because he wanted to engage in this unprincipled, soulless contemporary art. He began to copy things a hundred years ago: for example, he arranged an exhibition on Dadism “Yes, Death” (the first exhibition of Paul, 2007. - L.D. ) - it was a hyperudvision of both the National Basil slogan and Dadaist. Pasha was the only one of the modern artists who called themselves alone (when we had searches and repression) made an action in support of K.Kh. He painted the eggs in black and flooded blood in them, put it on the Chernavsky bridge and a golf club broke them, chanting: “There is no God!” Then, when the repression of the National Bolsheviks began in Voronezh, he moved to St. Petersburg, and after him I moved. We lived together for a long time. He made paper icons, some of them became the icons of the sect. Pavel is an artist, and he cannot help but create, and if you are doing worthy things, they will certainly have a price. Here you just need to choose: if you do anti -systemic things, then you cannot be sold, and if you are doing cool things, then they have a price. You just do not need to call them counter -cultural. And Paul honestly recognizes this position. Now he is serving large capital . His contribution to both art and the political environment is large. It is his picture that hangs over the bed of Eduard Limonov. Pasha and now remains faithful to her views. He just does not want to leave in the marginalia, he does not want to be this forever oppressed nationalball, which on the street can be supplied with his ears. I don’t know how revolutionary this position is, but Paul believes that we and this trend can be saddened. Turn art in such a direction that it transforms reality. It does not seem to me personally that the cash flow can be curbed in art, rather, the opposite. Pasha has something to sell, and we deliberately refuse to produce the product. Therefore, we even do nothing now, no promotions, no exhibitions, because as soon as you do something, they immediately hang the price tag “it costs so much” in any market: in the market of contemporary art, in the market of garbage art, in the market of primitive art. Therefore, over the past five years, I have realized that it is worth theoretically comprehending everything that is happening, but it is practically necessary to cease to exist in the most radical sense. ”

But what Pavel himself told about himself and his past:

- Do you think the activities of K.Kh Council and in general art?

- I think it was a deep phenomenon, first of all, laying at the level of culture and influenced many authors, including those involved in both the Council and local art.

- What place in culture do they, in your opinion, occupy?

- Now I’m sitting and I think that the definition of “place in culture” here will pull the hanging of unnecessary concepts. I preach a refusal to determine many things and processes. If we try to designate something specifically, in two words, three ... create some new phrase, thereby finding an unoccupied niche, our place for this phenomenon, then we will definitely have to cut off important elements. If I once have to give a definition, then I will begin by listing words that will not be the end: freedom, cross, earth, temple, thrash, blood, candle, book, faith, silence, holiday, lobby, forest, explosion, mole ... And even better-all this is stiff.

-Do you think that “stolen bread” was looking for glory with an indirect way, or it is not a promotion, but really rituals that people made exclusively in order to survive some personal experience, and not to introduce their names in the history of world culture?

- The search for glory and glory as such, I think, lie in a different plane, and other paths lead to all this. Here is the road to the forest, dark, mysterious, and then already from the forest who will come out where. Maybe someone flaunts fame, maybe someone just flashes, and someone remained in the forest. Here is also the concept of "glory." I am now broadcasting myself from Montenegro, and here “glory” is when everyone comes to your house on a certain day and you treat everyone, and everyone says, they say: well done, what the owner, they glorify you. Here the path to glory is very simple, it is more earthly, tangible, church.

- Do you consider yourself a member of the sect now?

- I fled to the Orthodox brothers in the end, the most. And of course, I think, for a member, because I feel the connection with the Compulsion, I am practicing to this day.

- And what practices, if not a secret?

- Let's just say this is the practice of ritual activity. This is everyday life, communication with nature, contrasting nature, penetration into it. And nature, and its perception, and understanding, it seems, in K.Kh, were an important element. Nobody dug a temple in the city center, nevertheless they left away from people, closer to themselves and their own. Now I’m cutting through the forest to the mountains. I think I would have climbed such a move somewhere near Voronezh-I would definitely fall under the pencil of the EE center. And it would be fun, there would be a different context, surveillance, detention ... and exhaust, or, as they say now, hype. But this is all x ****. I think so you can write down with direct text.

Mother and father

Now the art group has five founding fathers, one mother, a certain amount of deaconis. Plus brothers, sisters and St. Petersburg "parasites".

I talked with my mother Natalya:

- What do you consider to be actionism?

-In any actionism, a belief is laid down that the integrated use of various forms of art, uniting a single ray, is able to achieve any conceptual, political, social result.

- Do you consider the activity of K.X. Contemporary art?

- I think wider. K.Kh is a form of life creation. Any presentation of yourself within the framework of the art program implies that you will be a wave of globalism is deprived of the condo that gives classical art, or the manifestation of complete freedom that contemporary art gives. When I analyze the Council, I do this from the position of art dealer. And K.Kh has never been included in any market relationship.

- What is the goal of K.Kh?

- I never tried to find a goal -setting in this. These are freedmen. We have no charter and organization. Everyone in the framework of his life professes a certain line of paternity. This is a society of people who are complemented by each other. This is life creation. K.Kh is a form of leaving the questions that the world asks us daily. Society wants a person to take his place within the framework of the capitalist system, so that he will decompose himself in weight and on the number.

- What is K.Kh?

-For me, an art group is an extremely sincere form of realization of its capabilities. Я не верю в человеческий потенциал, не верю в творчество как в положительный процесс, не верю, что мы движемся от низшей ступени к высшей… Мне эта идея совершенствования личности абсолютно чужда. Я верю в то, что человек может наращивать в себе совершенство только тогда, когда он рассматривает себя как профессионала, как члена семьи и т.д. Но не когда рассматривает себя целостно. Я не имею никакой гражданской позиции вообще. Я ни за что не борюсь, меня не интересуют проблемы мира. Мне кажется, что человек должен стремиться к двум процессам: познанию и удовольствию. А если при этом он еще и старается не причинять боль тем, кого он знает, то мне кажется, что его антропологическая программа полностью выполнена.

Мастер абсурда отец Павликий также поделился своими соображениями:

— Павел, ты считаешь себя художником?

— Едва ли. Я радиотехник.

— А ты душу потерял?

— Пропил.

— Зачем ты принимал участие в акциях арт-группы?

— Мы просто все любили Любаню (почетная диакониса. — Л.Д .).

— Почему вы называетесь «Краденый Хлебъ»?

— Потому что все идеи, смыслы, символы — все это краденое.

«Я самый традиционалистский из них из всех»

Андреас Часовски пять лет ходил в христианские секты самых разных направлений, но не нашел ничего подходящего. Его духовные поиски закончились созданием своей закрытой тоталитарной секты К.Хъ. Все пасторы тут очень разные, говорят каждый по-своему, но их объединяют потрясающая целостность и любовь.

Пастор Алексей Ильинов о своей линии отцовства:

— Я, скорее, не идейный краденохлебовец. Просто друг Преподобного. Я самый традиционалистский из них из всех, поддерживаю контакт с евразийцами и нацболами. Мое краденохлебство не идейное, а семейное. Я считаю, что все мы — граждане Чевенгура. Наш анархизм имеет кровь и почву. Нам присуще ощущение себя частью единого исторического потока, ощущение связи с предками. Краденохлебство — это не идеология, это ощущение себя дома. Мне кажется, самое страшное для системы — это не какой-то нарисованный фаллос, как у группы «Война», а братия. Мы будем жить своей братией внутри системы. Система остается холодной, бесчувственной, безумной, такой, как во все времена. А К.Хъ — это личный выход.

— Ты художник?

- Yes. Я художник и поэт.

— Ты читал «Бомбастику» Бренера?

- No. Я люблю Клюева, Хлебникова, Тихонова, Платонова, Андрея Белого. Я тяготею к красно-коричневой эстетике. А эта европейская левизна… Она была раньше интересна, но выродилась.

— А вот там упоминается концепция «художник без произведения». Как ты ее понимаешь?

— Была такая арт-группа «зАиБи» . Это про них. Наверное, к нам это тоже применимо. В сущности, смысл хаосизма сводится к ничегонеделанию и шатанию по гостям.

— Ты считаешь себя философом?

— Скорее, я считаю себя любомудром. Всерьез интересуюсь русской религиозной философией.

— Как ты понимаешь название «Краденый Хлебъ»?

— Мне кажется, тут есть что-то от таинства христианской евхаристии. Момент совместного преломления хлебов и принятия того, что произойдет потом (предательства Иуды, распятия и воскресения). Мы обращаемся к пластам глубинной метафизики. В отличие от столичных людей, мы лишены некой наигранности, пафоса ради пафоса. В провинции некоторые вещи более искренне получаются. У нас тут нет каких-то столичных соблазнов. Нам приходится вертеться в своем кругу и что-то изобретать, ни на кого не ориентируясь.

— Все это прекрасно, но зачем вы используете мрачную готическую символику и чернушный флер?

— Это было некоторое время назад, сейчас мы уже повзрослели. Возможно, это связано с тем, что мы в 1990-е годы любили тяжелую музыку и переняли эту эстетику. Люди, которые видят пентаграмму и сразу начинают кричать про сатанизм, просто необразованные. Поэтому наша акция «Спите спокойно. Бог умер», сделанная в Страстную пятницу, была воспринята неверно. А она наихристианнейшая.

— Ты потерял свою душу?

— Это интимный вопрос. Это мой личный диалог с Абсолютом.

— Значит, секта — это форма эскапизма?

— Мы же не сбегаем. Мы живем в миру. Мы изучаем то, что вокруг нас.

— У тебя есть моральные принципы?

— Они у всех есть, но у каждого свои. Это проверяется в некоторые моменты жизни, когда человек показывает, человек он или нет.

— А человек — это кто?

— Творение Божье, птица Божья. Древняя китайская мудрость гласит: «Не нужно быть сложным, как бриллиант, а нужно быть простым, как яшма».

— Как можно перестать быть творением Божьим, птицей небесной?

— Крылышки потерять и прижаться к земле, как червячок. Примеров тому великое множество: тогда существование человека становится безрадостным и безвкусным. Для того и преломляем мы хлеб с братьями своими, чтобы приобщиться, чтобы крылышки свои не потерять.