Forefinger

January 15, 1991

Participants: "E.T.I." movement and " ZAiBI " (“ZAiBI” is the abbreviation for words “for anonynous and free art”)
The venue: opposite the U.S. embassy (on the other side of the Garden Ring road, Moscow)
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The action was timed to the beginning of the U.S. war against Iraq in the Persian Gulf. January 15, 1991 thirty young men were staying opposite the U.S. embassy and pointed a finger at it.

The action organised by E.T.I. movement. The idea – ZAiBI movement.

The idea was to reconstruct Iraqi sculpture. After the war with Iran Saddam Hussein raised thirty sculptures of dead Iraqi military officers, pointing a finger at the direction of the enemy. We wanted to put people exactly in the middle of the carriageway of the road. ZAiBI were against it, and, eventually, we put people on the opposite side of the embassy. January 15 ultimatum expired and it was supposed that the U.S. war with Iraq would start. As far as I remember it began on the next day.

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