Katya Ev
(ekaterina vasilyeva)

​Action: Two people are carrying an iron profile pipe with a rectangular cross-section on their shoulders. The pipe's length is several times greater than their bodies

Place: Moscow

Date, August 10, 2014 

Start: 5:50 AM [sunrise] — 84th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD) (intersection with Altufyevskoye Highway)

End: 11:30 PM — 33rd kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD) (intersection with Varshavskoye Highway)

Route: From the northernmost point of the Moscow Ring Road to the southernmost point, along an axis perpendicular to the projection of the Sun’s path, from sunrise to sunset. The Sun will be at its zenith at the moment of passing through Revolution Square, (geographical center of the city)

Length of route: 45 km

Average speed: 3 km/h

Travel time: 17 hours

Carried object: profile iron pipe, 60 x 40 x 6000 mm, purchased from a local construction supply store

Direct viewers: estimated over 10 000

Online announcement: statement by the artists, publicized only one day before for safety reasons

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​"Axe de Revolution (2014) is a 17-hour performance, during which the artists silently walked through Moscow from the very North point of it on the orbital highway to the very South point, carrying a 6 meter long 13,5 kilo heavy metal structural element of rectangular section. While the Sun was moving from the East to the West, they were heading forward along a straight 45 km long line through the city,  synchronizing their way across Moscow’s circular urban structure, that in its shape reminds the Copernican heliocentric model (Copernican Revolution), and constructing a cross with the trajectory of the Sun.