It corrupted it and stratified it, but simultaneously it affected the official system. The sudden appearance of hundreds of official artists is the usual scourge of official bureaucracies. The need for novelty merges with the question of instant acquisition of wealth. In the current situation I call on conservatism. Three years of freedom in the arts has led only to chaos.
Destruction is the key word in describing the present cultural situation.
I call on some artists to abandon this disease-like atmosphere and to create a new underground situation in these conditions. To understand how important and specific this is for today's Russian cultural situation it is necessary to understand the specifity or yesterday's underground situation. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of such exhibitions and Actions, whether they were one day, two hours or thirty minutes in duration. The logic of the taking place of an Action depended on logic or on a need within the micro-culture. Superfluous relationships were absent.