Our lectures are about our search for ways to communicate with Soviet culture and later the cultures of other countries.
Our lectures are based on our involvement with the cultural heritages of the USSR (and, now, post-Soviet Russia), Germany, Great Britain, and United States, and also on our personal experiences living in the USSR (and, now, post-Soviet Russia) and traveling in other countries.  Our work includes such themes as the Socialist Epoch in world culture and also imperial cultures of other countries and their influence on contemporary life at the end of second millennium.
The aim of our art is to experience and express our own culture and, while staying in touch with it, to understand other cultures so that we are able to communicate and interact with them.

This lecture includes our work with the cultural heritage of the USSR, especially some of its most striking manifestations in architecture: the Moscow subway,  the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, the Stalin skyscrapers, and the mythology of that time.
We've done a number of exhibitions on this theme as well as performances such as:
-The Exam-to explore the specific freedom of socialist choice.
-An Excursion to the Museum of Lenin based on a principle proclaimed by Lenin himself:  the tendency of Soviet people to rely only on primary sources.
      A number of performances in the Moscow subway station "Revolution Square":
-Privatization of the objects of "Art for the People";
-"Subbotnik"--dedicated to the disappearing traditions of volunteer patriotic work in Russia;
-The people's love of "Art for the People"--an attempt to re-evaluate the attitude towards the  works of art of the Socialist Epoch;
-The Underground Wedding--union of a girl from our time with a man of the 30's;
-The Underground Beauty Contest, Miss 38--a chance for girls of the 30's to take part in beauty  contests which are so popular now in Russia.

1."Subbotnik"-art film, Russian TV.
2."Museum Metropolitan of Cherkashin"-this film includes, besides our performances, a documentary film highlighting the celebration of holidays in the Red Square, construction of the Moscow Metro under Stalin's initiative in the 30's and the best workers who posed for the life-size bronze statues of the "Ploschad Revolutsii".

The lecture begins with a short slide show to describe how newspapers were used in works of art from the beginning of the 20^th century until our time.
Then we'll speak about the use of newspapers in our art.  First we started to use newspaper transfers in our photo works, then we used newspapers for collages and frames, and after that we started to create independent works of art from newspapers, such as "Red Pravda", "Black Pravda", small and folded "Pravda", newspaper flowers, figures of people, installations.

1."State of the Arts", CNN, 1992.
2."The day of press, the Day of Pravda", Central TV, 1993. This film is about our installation from newspapers in the Central TV studio and performances we did to create newspaper profiles and figures of visitors.