1972-1973

Installation-performance Paradise/Pantheon featured images of deities in various historical styles and movements, held at private apartment in Moscow. First postmodern work. “Samisdat”—self published underground artist book named Paradise was made out of black and white photographs of the performance. Installation visited by Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov, dissident leader and inventor of the hydrogen bomb. Demolished on state order in 1974.

 

Paradise/Pantheon, 1973, Installation, Detail

 

K&M, Paradise/Pantheon, installation in a private apartment, Moscow, 1972-1973.

 

K&M, performance in Paradise/Pantheon, 1972-73.