exhibition 2004 kq/skrju Exhibition of GALZA group opened at 28 of may 2004 year in Kalinig- rad Art Gallery, it will last till the end of july. In nearest time foto and video materials could be found at official site of group - www.galza.tk. /exhibition/ The place - starched white hall about hundred square meters. We tried to gather all directions of ascii art in exposition - amiga style, ansi, new school. All works, presented at exhibition, we- re either released in art packs of GALZA, or will be published very soon. Main part of works was prin- ted at black and white A1 lists, and some more at great, impressive A0. Bright colour spots are skillfuly interlaced in the strict grid of black and white sheets: ma- inly, these are works of Shadow, plus merciless joint from the magi- cians of suprematism in ascii - zmej_ and bug. I avow - big rectangles of ascii looked very organic on a white walls, creating an impression, that it meant to be here from the very beginning - soar in we- ightlessness of snow covered white walls, strenghten by the strict ge- ometry of concepts, to build not an exposition, but an atmosphere of archaic creation (however, brin- ging ultramodern filling). In the first day, right during the opening address of gallery directo- rate, a ten-minute performance was started: flute, white coats, white axe and also white pies. Ac- tion was arranged by the local ar- tists. Besides, all time during an exhibition a demo EVENLESS by Cy- berPunks Unity was working in a loop mode. A few days before an opening there was a radio report about an exhibi- tion, at the first day - two tv channels and journalists of a prin- ted press. After - more tv and radio. (Do not believe mass media. It LIES. Always find primary so- urce.) /noise/ But for me, the most interesting were next half and an hour: in another hall of a gallery I was go- ing to show works of groups KOS- MOPLOVCI, SATORI, CPU, INWARD, SKRJU. Specially for an exhibi- tion, last mentioned, did a new work - IDIOT. (unfortunately, IN- WARD didn't succeed to do their work in time.) Apartments, where the demonstration took place, was intended for about 100 people, and fullfilled almost whole (I'am tal- king approximately, because it is impossible to be precise in a dark room). Well disposed rows of com- fortable blue coloured chairs, big screen (about 3x4 meters), crowd of people. As it should be expected, it wasn't done without technical tro- ubles: for about 20 minutes we tried to bring projector back to life, suddenly died out during the testing. Then, it clarified, that presented hardware doesn't run a lot of KOSMOPLOVCI works. The show was started from the demos of COR- ROSION. Then - EVENLESS and THE SO- URCE by CPU. Then KOSMOPLOVCI. Applause. FUCKyouSCENE! by SKRJU. Applause. Unsuccessful attempt to run IDIOT. Works by SATORI, ZDEN, again KOSMOPLOVCI. Applause. Fi- nally, after more than an hour IDIOT: six minutes triangles rota- ted on the screen and a very strange, mercilessly minimalistic noise was sounding . Then a basic error appeared. Silence for the ten seconds. I'am starting to clap my hands - audience supports me. This moment was beautiful! Certa- inly, applause on KOSMOPLOVCI surprised me, on FUCKYOUSCENE! - even more, but when tired people, subtly felt the moment of humour, noise and zx-spectrum, after a long delay, nevertheless sincerely applausing - this is enchanting. At least, after a week I un- derstood, that I untolerably want to repeat all this, or do so- mething other way, but - untole- rably. I was frightened by this de- sire. We completed with the announce of tomorrow's videoart, showing a small piece by ZDEN. I was very dissapointed by the fact, that exactly those works of KOSMOP- LOVCI, I wanted to show didn't run on presented hardware: HWR2, ko- lonija, d796, migracija - none of that was shown. /.../ I want to open gallery, I want to make a club, at least bar, I want to do a printed magazine, I want to organize stunning exhibitions and performances in unexpectable places, I want money, billions, I want to live forever. With my friends, almost a dozen of people, on the roof of a twelve-storey house, we celebra- ted the opening of exhibition. Champagne 'Riga' for 77 rubles.