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• Sergey Kuryokhin and Pop Mekhanika – all documents |
Pop Mekhanika • Поп-механика‘Popular Mechanics’, Leningrad 1986Leningrad Palace of the YouthЛДМ – Ленинградский Дворец молодежи 20. 10. 1986 «Козлиный концерт или Введение в Поп-механику»
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| Participants identified (the list is non-exhaustive): Conductor: Sergey Kuryokhin • Сергей Курёхин Rock section: String section (three or more) Jazz section (five or more) Musicians and artistis/performers Dancers The folk music ensemble A. Fedko • фольклорный ансамбль А.Федько
(E-E) Evgenij Kozlov’s pictures show this Pop Mekhanika performance with a combination of its typical sections: jazz, rock, string, folklore, dancers and artist-performers, as well animals. If the PM from December 1985 had hens, and the May 1986 performance (“Dialogues”) had a baboon, this one had a goat. This is why it was called – retrospectively – “The Goat Concert or Introduction to Pop Mechanics”. “Introduction to Pop Mechanics” is also the title of LP recorded live, edited by Leo Records in 1987. In 1998 it was re-published in Russia by Manchester Files (Bomba-Piter), and this production is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKgSTHnWfE We see a number of paintings as stage decoration. Other features were children’s toys: an inflatable snake and an inflatable crocodile, the latter quite large. Joanna Stingray, who participated on stage, filmed part of the performance. Several fragments with a total length of 2min 20 sec can be seen in her video "Red Wave Exhibit Film" at 14:26-16:45. https://vimeo.com/151329868 However, the LP on the one hand and the pictures and video on the other hand almost appear to relate to different concerts. At the beginning and the end, the record has several minutes of the typical PM rock section’s rhythm and blues riff, but otherwise displays nothing of the cross-over of musical sections, documented by Kozlov’s pictures and Stingray’s video. The LP’s main pieces are Kuryokhin’s piano and keyboard improvisations, partly combined with saxophone, drums and vocals as well as a tango song and some sound collages. In other words, it is closer to a solo concert than to a Pop Mekhanika production. As a matter of fact, the list of musicians indicated on the record is much shorter than the one we can establish with the help of Kozlov’s pictures. To give an example: of the jazz musicians there is only Sergey Letov and the string section has Vsevolod Gakkel, but neither Boris Rayskin nor Vladimir Dikansky. What is more, Kuryokhin’s grand piano from the LP is not present in the pictures, and Bugaev is not playing the drums, as indicated on the record sleeve. It is of course possible that the pictures show only fragments of the performance. There is, however, a picture on Sergey Letov’s website from a different venue showing Kuryokhin, himself and Bugaev as a trio. It could have been made part of “Introduction in Pop Mechanics”. http://kuryokhin.letov.ru/kuryokhin-interview.htm. About the pictures: Evgenij Kozlov documented the performance and backstage scenes with two black-and-white 36 mm negative films. In the course of the developing process, he applied his characteristic technique of scratching patterns into the moist film emulsion. The needle or pencil removes the emulsion from the film, and the print shows this blank space as a black line or hatching. But like in an engraving, the needle leaves a “burr” next to the line which then dries to the emulsion. In the print it appears as a white, somewhat curly line. These black and white patterns emphasise the dynamic of what happens on stage. As always, Kozlov’s prime concern was to take pictures for his own creative work, and with this PM performance, the result were his portraits of Georgy Guryanov (1987), Joanna Stingray (1989), Oleg Kotelnikov (1988) and a multiple figure portrait with Andrey Krisanov, Joanna Stingray and Sergei Bugaev (1986 or 1987). The portrait of Guryanov had a second version in 2017. Seven painted photographs have also been preserved. The one with Joanna Stingray, Viktor Tsoy and Mariana Tsoy and another one with Oleg Kotelnikov are part of Kozlov’s album “It’s the Fashion. 1984-1990”. One more is in the collection of Ágnes Fehdenfeld-Horváth. and three are in Cahterine Mannick’s collection There might be others in private collections, as Kozlov often gave them to those of his friends who participated in the performances. Furthermore, Evgenij Kozlov used several negatives for a series of painted photo collages from 2014: E-E-Classic (НЛО-UFO) more >>. These works have also been included. A number of pictures are today only available on vintage contact sheets, the negatives having been lost. These contact sheet scans can easily be recognised by the film perforation on both sides of the image. The quality of these pictures is not always satisfactory, but they complete the documentation. Hannelore Fobo, 2018 |
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No 157 from the series "E-E-Classic (НЛО-UFO)" Mixed media and photo collage on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2014
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