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Rightfully the main set for
Assa were happenings organized by Sergey Kuryokhin in form of Popular Mechanics
– a kind of an idiomatic ship where
Sergey played the role of captain. Being a composer with jazz background he based
this concept on jazz improvisation, that was slowly sucking up all the art forms
and new participants, balancing in terms
of music between aesthetics of jazz, rock and new wave. Sceniс-wise along with theatrical performances happenings
started to include art exhibitions and avant-garde fashion shows, combined in a
whole performative action, symbolizing death and birth, chaos and order, death
of the old and birth of the new. Aboard this ship in the Perestroika period the
Popular Mechanics sailed like Noah’s Arch into the official life and started to comprise
even more, the everyday absurd of the Perestroika chaos. After the shooting of
“Assa” the initial more underground cast
obviously changed and the scenic action was complemented by pop-artists,
politics and animals. And it also was the most precise projection of reality.
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