mourning horses

“Do something undreamed-of,” demanded Khlebnikov, “strictly new, you horses pulling the hearse of the world!”

shklovsky

 

“The road keeps turning. The turns throw back the highway like a roll of fabric on the counter.

zangezi

In 1923, Vladimir Tatlin designed, directed, and starred in a performance of Velimir Khlebnikov's play Zangezi that was presented by an amateur troupe at the Museum of Artistic Culture in Petrograd. Khlebnikov had died earlier in the year, and the performance was to be a memorial to Tatlin's favorite poet. To Khlebnikov's construction of words, where sound was the principle building element, Tatlin attempted to find a counterpart in tangible construction, built with a variety of materials in different surfaces and shapes.