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    The performance "107 fears" in the Hermitage attics by the St Petersburg group The Found Clothes Factory On 11 October 2001, in the attics of the Winter Palace, The Found Clothes Factory, a St Petersburg-based group of artists, gave a theatricalized performance "107 fears" devoted to the work of Louise Bourgeois, the American 20th-century sculptor who is a living classic of Post-Modernism. To the accompaniment of an electronic voice talking about childhood fear syndromes, personages of girlish dreams and secret visions came onto the podium. In solemn procession, dressed in elaborate costumes, they carried out to the audience dishes of aromatic food in the form of human innards. The slightly shocked audience responded promptly and enthusiastically tucked into the edible props of the anatomical theatre. Louise Bourgeois - the "Mythical Old Lady" of contemporary art, the "collector of spaces and memories" has become a cult figure for two female St Petersburg artists - Natalya Pershina-Yakinskaya (Gluklya) and Olga Egorova (Tsaplya). In 1995 they established The Found Clothes Factory that works in the genre of performance art and multimedia installations. The Found Clothes factory is an enterprise for the production of an organized Dream, in which "Justice reigns and there is no Death". Clothing in the ideology of the Factory is the ideal building material for the realization of such a Dream. The organizer of the artistic project "107 fears" in honour of Louise Bourgeois was Marina Koldobskaya, an artists and critic who is director of the Museum of Non-Conformist Art. The dishes for the unusual menu were prepared by the company Master-Kompleks. |
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