Вос 22 Апрель : 45 минут без движения.

Вос 22 Апрель : 45 минут без движения. Место и время встречи : Киевский вокзал около пригородных касс 15.00.

And here's what happened:

The space chosen for this last action was the waiting room of Kievsky train station. We met outside at 3h and by 3h30 we were 15 and as no one else was supposed to show up we decided to go. We entered the room, spread all around and, some standing, some sitting, some right in the center, some near the walls, stopped moving for the next 45 minutes.

The first 15 minutes were very quiet, people merely noticed those standing right in the center. From where I was standing I could see most of the room and while trying to relax my body looked at the people there. Families, men playing cards, people reading, slowly drinking beer or coke, an old women sleeping surrounded by an impressive quantity of luggage, a few kids and about all kind of people waiting for a train or just going through.

After a while people started noticing us. Not only those of us standing in the middle but all of us and then something interesting happened: in their search for more non-moving people they were scanning the whole room and its occupants. That old man, is he sleeping or is he part of the immobility plot as well? The confusion augmented when a young man stopped in the middle of the room waited immobile, looking at the ceiling for about 8 minutes and resumed walking to the platforms. It happened several time.

After about 30 minutes a man appeared on small cleaning cart and started cleaning the room from wall to wall. The suspense lasted for a good 5 minutes. What will happen when he’ll arrive to the center where these three people have been standing without a move for the last half hour? Well… he stopped about half a meter behind Sacha, raised his arms as if asking what the hell is that all about, had a look around and turned the motor off. He waited for a couple of minutes, restarted the engine, went around the 3 persons standing and resumed his cleaning. The whole process took about ten minutes and took us to the end of the 45 minutes of immobility. We gradually resumed moving and went out.