The battle of psychics is a holy fool. All our forever “I am Pahom”: how to turn your biography into a work of art

Pahom performed at the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art with the program "Saving Cry", and the audience that came to him was divided into two opposing camps.

The first, bigger one, is the youth who know Pakhom thanks to The Green Elephant, a film shot in 1998-1999 with an amateur camera in the so-called "garbage" genre and which gained incredible popularity in social networks because of the banter over taboo topics. And the second part of the audience that came to Pakhom's performance in St. Petersburg is TNT viewers who know the artist as a very strong psychic who participated in the 16th season of the "Battle" and successfully passed all the tests, and then suddenly left the project at will.

Let's say right away that those who read on the poster “Correction of fate with a cry. The unique technique of Ded Pakhom” and, having bought tickets at a price of 400 to 1000 rubles, came to Erarta hoping for a miracle, were disappointed. Although, maybe a miracle did happen, because faith in psychics was shaken.

Grandfather Pahom (although, by the standards of Carlson, he is not a grandfather at all, but a man in the prime of his life - Sergey Igorevich is only 49 years old) began his speech like this:

The organizers told me that there were a lot of women of Balzac age in the hall. I beg you, pass me the notes, and I will answer them.

And while the audience was thinking what to ask Pakhom, the artist, together with his stage partner Alexei Borisov, who is responsible for the musical atmosphere, began his performance. He began with the autobiographical minimalist play “Kurlyk. Start".

I made my first "kurlyk" during the filming of "The Green Elephant", which became a film for a whole generation, which I am very surprised at. That “buzz” was spontaneous, born of youth, sensuality and a certain scalding. And my second “kurlyk” was conscious, it happened 20 years later where people talk to the world of secrets (we are talking about the “Battle of Psychics”. - Approx. ed.). I issued a second “kurlyk” so that people would think that I am a consistent person, and so that everyone understands that stupidity is progressively taking over the world, Pahom said.

According to him, the second “kurlyk” uttered at the “Battle of Psychics” became very public and fell in love with all honest people. But for those who are in the subject, who watched the "Green Elephant", this "kurlyk" set a very actual question: how can a person who ate his own bowel movements in front of the camera be a psychic?

Actually, Pahom was asked such a question in one of the notes. And the artist gave the following answer to it: “Why can't a shit eater be a psychic? On the other hand, to become a psychic, you have to be a shit eater, right? Most of the audience, consisting of fans of the Green Elephant, who stole this film for Internet memes, rejoiced, and the other began to mentally prepare to leave Erarta.

Then Pahom played music on a white piano, calling the not very harmonious sounds emitted by the instrument healing. Then he delighted the audience with quotes from the same film by Svetlana Baskova "The Green Elephant", as well as the film "Five Bottles of Vodka", which tells about the backstage life of the capital's bar.

I doubt whether I belong to the ladies of Balzac's age, but I want to ask. I am interested in the question of my health, but I will ask another: can a person influence his own destiny or is everything in the hands of God? Pahom read one of the notes.

Pakhom replied that one should take care of one’s health, listening to him from the age of 25, and as for fate, very little is given to a person ... He stated that only the collective can save people from destruction, called for uniting in “sects”, which in essence are families, talked about the insane, said that he had not been drinking for four years, again remembered the Green Elephant, because most of the public demanded it. And the last question from viewers who came to the psychic, and not to the art house artist, concerned the reasons why Pahom voluntarily left the TNT project.

I participated in the “Battle of Psychics” consciously, because, firstly, I thought that I had something to tell, and secondly, I believed that with my subconscious script I could infiltrate the already finished one. I realized that the "Battle of Psychics" is the only place where you can, without shame, talk about such things as kindness, love, help, compassion, forgotten in a television format. And I left the "Battle" because I worked out myself. And if I had stayed, I would have turned into a rag doll, which personally would not suit me,” Pahom said. - But I'm glad that the audience loved me.

And then the artist began to perform his songs: “Life is a fun carnival”, something not very decent about love borscht and much more in the same style. The audience that went to the art figure was really “pumped” by Pakhom and Borisov, others were laughed at, others were puzzled ... But the show obviously did not leave anyone indifferent, judging by

When he appeared at the qualifying round of the 16th season of the Battle of Psychics, the audience, at least a little familiar with the Moscow underground, was amazed. Everyone had one single question in their heads: "Why did he come here?" And indeed, why should a person who combines the skills of a musician, avant-garde artist, screenwriter, underground actor and some others pass tests intended for people with superpowers? After the first release of the season, the audience began an endless debate about who he really is: a psychic with an amazing gift, a good actor or a charlatan. So, his biography has attracted a lot of curious eyes since the moment he appeared at the battle.

Children's hobbies

In November 1966, a boy named Seryozha was born. He said that at the age of five, his parents sent him to music school. He graduated with a degree in violin. He also played after graduation, but soon gave up this hobby. The case was the fault: his mother, somehow slipping on icy asphalt during a regular walk, fell on the instrument.

Another hobby of a boy named Sergey Pakhomov, whose biography is full of obscure facts, was drawing. In order for his talent to be confirmed and developed further, he graduated from an art school and an art-industrial school. At the school, the guy is fond of Russian painting techniques and iconography.

In parallel with this, he sympathizes with music and sports: he plays in musical groups and wrestles.

Exhibitions and gloss

In one of the interviews, Sergei Pakhomov, whose biography is still being questioned, as well as the facts set forth in it, said that about a year before he graduated from college, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital named after Kashchenko. sent him there instead of sending him off to a war that never ended in Afghanistan.

In the eighties, the avant-garde artist participated in some chamber art exhibitions, which were held not only in clubs, but also in apartments. At the end of the decade, Pakhomov had the opportunity to share his skills with foreign art connoisseurs - in New York and Austria.

For twelve years, from 1988 to 2000, Sergey Pakhomov, whose photo is presented in the article, studied art in the countries of America and Europe with special attention. He believed that for his further creative development this is a necessary condition.

Another area of his activity is art director at Russian version Elle.

His film masterpieces

Sergey Pakhomov, whose biography was constantly updated with facts incomprehensible to the average layman, became famous after playing roles in scandalous famous films directed by Svetlana Baskova "The Green Elephant", "Cocky the Running Doctor" and some others. The director believes that their joint work with Sergei in essence and content is the same as that of Fellini and Mastroianni. She constantly draws attention to the fact that without this underground actor, none of her films will be bright and memorable, the films will lose their soul.

True, the actor himself treats himself with a huge share of criticism and calls his work in Russian cinema "a mixture of absurdity and idiocy." The most notable role played by Sergei Pakhomov, a psychic - in the near future, was the role of a peasant from the village in the film "The Green Elephant". He later appeared in the TV series Gaius Germanicus.

Personal life of a strange person

His personal life, as well as his creative aspirations, is full of some kind of incomprehensible and intractable absurdity. On the one hand, in the spring of 2007, Sergei Pahom claims that he is not married, but is the father of his adopted son Ivan. On the other hand, in one of the interviews that Sergei Pakhomov distributes quite often, especially in recent times, he says that he is happily married and is raising his own sons.

And only a couple of years ago, the fact became public that Sergei Pakhomov was officially married to Elena Tokareva, who was the editor-in-chief of the ELLE Decor publication.

And again "Battle"

Grandfather Pahom, as he calls himself, was one of the most extraordinary and controversial participants in the 16th season of the Battle of Psychics. His appearance on the show was very unexpected. He convinced everyone that up to this point he had never watched a single issue from previous seasons. But his acquaintances, who were aware that he had some abilities, convinced Sergey that he just needed to try his hand on a par with other participants.

In the very first qualifying round, when it was necessary to find a man hidden in the trunk of one of several dozen cars located on both sides of a large hangar, he amazed everyone. Having coped brilliantly with the task, Sergey Pakhomov found a man twice (!) The Battle of Psychics has never seen anything like it. None of the participants has shown such a great result. True, when he chose the right car, the presenter did not believe it, considered that Pahom was just lucky, and asked him to try again. What he did was just perfect!

And all further trials this strange, more like a bum or a holy fool, passed in such a way that those around him were simply amazed.

And only after the end of filming, Sergei Pakhomov, whose biography has now blossomed bright colors told why he is here. He just doesn't get the glory. Yes, of course, he already had some fame after the release of films and exhibitions with his canvases. But that wasn't enough for him. What came of it, you can find out by watching the 16th season about the battle of people with superpowers.

This fall, the 16th season of the Battle of Psychics program started. Without a doubt, for several episodes of the show, viewers have their favorites, which can now be safely called one of the brightest in the history of the show. Fans of the project, presenter, experts and many who happened to witness discoveries on the set, definitely singled out the extraordinary participant Ded Pakhom.

Even in the first episode of the show, the man struck the imagination of the public not so much with his abilities as with the manner in which they were presented. For example, he appeared in slippers, during the performance of tasks in a very expressive way he entered a trance, but in the end the result stunned the participants of the show. Pahom was even asked to repeat the result, which he did brilliantly. The psychic amazed and made me laugh and cry. In a word, from series to series, the attention of the audience was riveted to him. Everyone was waiting to see how he would show himself next time.

Experts and guests of the show praised the psychic's abilities and recognized that he really has a special gift to feel and see what others cannot. The proof was the decision of the judges in the "Battle of Psychics" to recognize Pakhom as the best psychic of the week based on the results of the last issue. But few could have expected that in an instant Ded Pahom would stop fighting for victory.

In the new episode of the show, which viewers had the opportunity to see today, Sergey Pakhomov (the real name of the psychic. - Editor's note) suddenly announced his departure. It turned out that the decision of the project participant was connected not so much with the desire to stop fighting for the title of the best of the best, but with an attempt to help out colleagues.

Two other participants, demonstrating abilities in tandem, the mother and daughter of Voronova, had to leave by decision of the judges. It was their names that were in the black envelope. When this was found out, Pahom hastened to intervene in the current course of events and announced his intention to leave instead of the Voronovs. The decision of the psychic shocked not only the viewers, but also the creators of the show themselves - no one expected such an outcome. The noble gesture of Sergei Pakhomov was accepted by the mother and daughter of the Voronovs with gratitude, although they did not hide the fact that this decision surprised them.

Pakhom's act has already begun to be actively discussed by viewers on social networks. Many expressed indignation, but supported the psychic, recognizing that he is still the best for them, and he has already become a real favorite of thousands of fans of the show. And someone reconsidered their attitude towards Sergei. After all, it's no secret to anyone that he always caused an ambiguous attitude, because he could react in a peculiar way, behave in a peculiar way. But this situation allowed people to understand that a man is able to give up everything to save someone else.

It is possible that Ded Pakhom's decision was not spontaneous, as it might seem at first glance. Probably, the project participant realized much earlier that he managed to prove everything to himself and others, and therefore did not see the point in continuing this game. What the psychic was actually guided by when he announced his desire to leave the “Battle of Psychics” remains to be guessed.

Pahom is not accustomed to speak frankly about himself. , which he gave the day before, the psychic admitted that it is much more important for him to create a certain image for the audience. “I form a myth about myself,” Pahom said. - Therefore, just now everything is according to the laws of myth, reticence. The feeling that people experience when looking at me is more important to me now than some kind of concretization. I will not in any way give a reason to find out something about me. I'd rather be confused. To a greater extent, even lead away from the truth.

psychic Sergei Pakhomov (Pakhom).
Biography: grandfather Pahom, a scandalous artist (Green Elephant), a crazy artist and a well-known holy fool in Moscow. Homeless grandfather Sergey Pahom (Green Elephant) is a foolish psychic, deliberately falls into a state of trance, his techniques and practices are like a crazy dance.
Pahom is the most amazing member of the new battle. He successfully draws, acts and sings. He says that he felt the Messiah.

Official site of psychic Sergei Pakhomov (pakhom's grandfather), where you can ask him questions and make an appointment .

Participant in 2015 on the TNT channel. , why did he suddenly leave the 16th battle as a test leader?

How Sergey Pakhomov was tested, reviews, abilities:
+ He found a man in the trunk. The host Safronov decided to double-check and asked Pakhom to go through this test again. And the second time he found again .. For the first time in the history of the Battle.
+ in the drawings I was able to figuratively show what was hidden behind the screen;
+ I was able to find my photo from 11 others.
+ I was able to find the house from the photo and clear the site of the restless dead.
+ was able to determine who is dead and who is alive by a love spell;
+ can find needles in the house and remove the curse on himself;
+ can find a person who physically changed gender;
+ can determine whether a person is alive or dead from a photo;
+ can find out what is hidden in the black box;
- could not find a person who is in danger;

How strong psychic Sergei Pakhomov (holy fool Pahom) on a 3-point system: 3 (according to the results of tests on TV)
(1 - none; 2 - something can, something is not; 3 - a strong psychic)

Photo: Ivan Kaidash

You must have heard: Sergey Pakhomov, artist, musician, actor, art director, meme and just an outstanding personality (as he himself says, “… piss who I am”), now also the holy fool psychic Grandfather Pahom. Sergey came to TNT for the sixteenth season of the "Battle of Psychics", passed a series of tests and voluntarily left the program, giving way to the duet of Iolanta and Rossa, against whom the jury voted. Under the guns of the cameras, Grandfather Pahom explained his act with a desire to do a good deed. For six episodes, Pakhom was recognized by the face of about ten million Russians - the ratings of the show are comparable only with the indicators of the President's New Year's greetings. Pahom grew up in an incomplete family. His father, a professor of microbiology, broke up with his mother when Sergei was still a child. As a child, Pakhomov had hallucinations and visions, he could cry for six hours just thinking about the death of his mother. “And I had all the experiences in my life. What I think is what I feel. When a child is alone in the family, this indicates pain. I try to aestheticize everything, including her. This is a good tool for knowing the world: through suffering, through psychosis. But my pain is always on the verge of a masquerade, which is important. Because, of course, I am for life, not for death, ”Pakhomov and I met a week after the last issue of the“ Battle of Psychics ”was shown with his participation. “Grandfather Pahom is a collective image. Such a mythologeme of Russian culture, a kind of simpleton who does not wipe his nose, does not cut his nails. The voice of the people,” Sergey explains. Maria Shaikevich, the permanent producer of the “Battle of Psychics” program, talks about Sergey: “He is a hypersensitive person, and what is this if not a psychic? We didn't want him to leave. They gave him victory." A TV source confirmed that Pahom was the favorite of both the jury and the audience: according to polls, he gained 50% of the votes, three times ahead of the closest pursuer. I ask Pahom if he sees his own fate as a medium. "Of course. Such an even illumination. It's called delusions of grandeur."

In painting, Pakhomov fluctuates between abstractionism, icon painting and popular prints: “I like pseudo-metaphorism, pseudo-banality, the likeness of something, something that looks like a glimpse of thought, but exactly what it looks like, because this way it becomes more meaningful” Photo: Ivan Kaidash 6.32. Saturday. Crimea.“Good morning, Great Moloch,” Sergey Pakhomov greets me in a wasteland five steps from the central square of Balaklava. Time is running out. Sergey started the morning with coffee and Ariel Pink's latest album; in the car, artist Vladimir Yarin offers to have a bite to eat with fried red mullet, as well as Pakhomov, who works on the set of Valeria Gai Germanika's new series "Bonus". In a series of fantastic metamorphoses, Pakhom was thrown here as a production designer. On the way, I ask Pakhomov what unites them with Germanicus. Cabaret style? "Maybe yes. When I lived in Berlin, I went to old cabarets, absorbed the music of Klaus Nomi. We are united with Germanicus by strength and helplessness. Or the power of helplessness. The idea of greatness through squalor is close to me,” he explains. Pakhomov draws my attention to the similarity of the patchwork insulation of Khrushchev houses with the paintings of Paul Klee, animatedly talks about the filming of the Big Top Show in Simeiz, but when the conversation deviates from the knurled rails of social conversation, he suddenly becomes serious: “In art, you can go towards perfection. And you can go back to destruction. But even there you need to look for your own rhythms, your own logic of decay, be able to identify cyclicity. We are talking about the "Green Elephant" - an artifact of the nineties, a deeply metaphorical chamber drama, against the idea of the authors last years a real internet hit. “It could only be filmed in that cheap style; I understand and love everything ugly, wretched and ugly. Because it’s beautiful,” Pahom’s voice trembles, and tears are about to well up in his eyes. In the scattered rays of the sun breaking through the gray clouds, he looks like a big child.

Another important impression of Pakhomov's childhood is the lubok, understood as a kind of picture of the world. This is noticeable in his painting - bright, contrasting colors, rough but accurate descriptiveness, ubiquitous inscriptions - from quite clear to abstract and self-sufficient. “Homosexual master”, “Freedom, equality and brotherhood, I love to touch”, “Sof Yaots Zyuyul”. For the first time he was shown on TV in the late eighties in the program "Look" precisely as a painter. He sold his paintings on the streets of Moscow, and in the early nineties he went on a long journey: he painted the Berlin Wall, made friends with Parisian bohemians and received grants in New York. Apparently, he was really successful: Pakhomov participated in the landmark collective exhibitions of the eighties, and in the 2000s he had a completely brilliant gallery history. What is the incident with the acquisition of Saatchi one of the artist's monumental works - "I Pahom" - sixteen wooden boards with the same inscription, united in a giant panel. Paintings, videos, photographs, and Pakhom's life itself are clearly subject to the principles of seriality. Take "Blaue Hand" - an installation in Berlin, consisting of three hundred shots of Pahom's hand in a blue glove, which finds itself in interesting life situations. “I am generally a supporter of banality. You know, I like people who tell jokes, but the same joke is better. And it is ideal for a person to pronounce one word in general - we are sitting with Pakhom in a cafe. - So I dreamed of such a person, and then the wooden hero appeared in an American film, he said there: "I am Groot." Now the husk is leaving and only “I am Katya”, “I am Petya”, “I am John” remain. Nothing else. Because there are many songs, there are many worms, there are many wars - just a lot. The wealth is gone. Wanting is no longer important, doing is also. But the moment of identification is important.” Sergei Pakhomov does not hide the fact that he perceives life as a creative act, and a biography as a work of art. This approach correlates with the attitudes of the late Soviet nonconformists - Mamleev, Prigov, Sorokin, Zverev. He crossed paths with many of them in his youth. “You just need to understand where we came from, where we are going,” Sergey finishes eating his noodles, and people are whispering around us in a tiny cafe. The words “Pahom”, “battle” and “elephant” are well heard.

One of the main achievements of Pakhomov is the development of a recognizable image that people turn to: “During the times of thaw, I created my own world with my demons, everything is like in a good Japanese manga. That’s why teenagers love me so much, because I’m a familiar hero for them, such a shitty, cheerful grandfather, and even a sorcerer. This is a single picture that you can take and paste anywhere - from rock opera to documentary film»

Photo: Ilya Batrakov

10.30. Saturday. Simferopol, railway station. None of those with whom I had a chance to communicate throughout my career were approached by so many people for an autograph or just with a question as to Sergey Pakhomov. He unquestioningly paints other people's notebooks and stands under the sight of smartphone cameras. “My friend from Holland made a vase from a booger. I sat in the morning, put my finger in my nose, pulled it out - he liked the shape, he digitized it on the scanner, and it turned out to be an excellent vase. His name is Marcel Wanders, the Moooi company,” Pahom talks about modern design to the stunned fifty-year-old employees of the station and a couple of police officers. 10.40. There. “You have to really play with yourself. Risk is a very important thing, you need to be open to it. But a lot of sad things happen. It's scary when people take off, but they can't tell the world anything. They do not spit divine spit into the future. You can not send aliens, unfortunately, the songs of Laertsky. They don't give the full picture. But if you send them the songs of Laertsky and Muromov, then the picture will become complete. And what prevents me from being both Muromov and Laertes, and also the whole space between them? Ambitious tasks should be. And the divine spitting must be prepared all the time for spitting, ”Pakhomov argues, taking advantage of a break in filming, sipping tea from a plastic cup. Right hand Pakhomova, Igor Gembel, who, with the light hand of the head of the floor film set calls Goebbels, begins to tell that the third eye closes from fluorine, so teeth need to be brushed with powder. “We have all the patients on the site here. Everything ... [with a shift]. Healthy ones are not needed, ”Pahom lets go on the go. 10.55. There. Loading into the train Simferopol-Sevastopol, in the dining car of which filming should continue. Germanika and Pakhomov are riding in a compartment. We started. The Motor team is delayed, delayed, delayed - at some point, the art director and director begin to sing "This train is on fire" in chorus. The train is crawling, violating all conceivable laws on the minimum speed of movement, Stalker landscapes are stretching outside the window. Sergey carefully cleans the sleeve of the jacket from the detected spot. For a man with such a frantic lifestyle, he is extremely economic. “I love jokes. But to me, as a lover of finesse, the absurd seems more subtle than straightforward humor. A joke that doesn’t look like a joke, something like that, ”says Sergey. 11.40. Deputy enters the car CEO TV channel "Rain" Alexei Kazakov, dressed in a conductor's suit. After releasing a few compliments to Germanika, he begins to tease Pakhomov with the fact that "the scene is not built." “Who is building something? Everything has already been done! Not made by hands is our principle, understood? This is how Crimea is, it is not made by hands,” Sergei waves his hand. However, soon Pakhomov starts up and threatens the team to "bang on the head with Thor's hammer." However, it is already clear from everything that he is not Thor, but Loki, the god of wickedness. Germanika shares her sadness about a car stolen in Moscow. “I want a new one. I wrote to Volkswagen, I'm Germanicus, so that they would give. And she wrote to Skoda - to Octavia (the name of her daughter Valeria. - Approx. ed.). I will name my second child Mercedes, ”the director slaps himself on the stomach.

One of the milestones of the partisan struggle of Sergei Pakhomov was his employment in senior positions in the largest glossy publications. “It was so far from me at that time, the whole structure, these computers - it was interesting for me to start from scratch. And yet carry on all the time double life, keep the concept of the magazine in your head during the day, and go to shoot with Baskova in the evening, ”Pakhomov does not get tired of explaining. Pakhomov's main occupation in the 2000s was stand-up, as strange as the speeches of the One who went from the Green Elephant. To watch Pakhom's performances, every Tuesday Moscow's bohemian circles climbed a steep fire escape into an unheated room behind the School of the Modern Play theater, converted by restaurateur Arkady Zeltser into either an office or a private club. “The performances themselves could last for two minutes, when the stoned Pahom could yell something, hit his forehead against the wall and fall. But after that he got up, brushed himself off, went out to the people and, as if nothing had happened, conducted elegant secular conversations,” laughs Alexander Kondukov, editor-in-chief of the domestic Rolling Stone. Mikhail Kotomin, editor-in-chief of the Ad Marginem publishing house, recalls: “I was struck by his drive. It was cold, but Pakhomych in Sorokin's narratives warmed himself up so much that at some point he took off his sheepskin coat and remained in his shorts, not noticing what was happening around. Pakhomov's manner was, on the one hand, shaped by tram brawlers, city lunatics, street preachers, and on the other hand, by the conceptual poet Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov: “He knew how to look at himself from the side during a performance. Little Prigov controlled the big one. Like any world-famous performance artist, Prigov understood that he could not let go of ecstasy completely. Uncontrolled madness is simply not interesting.” Pahom himself - as a name, as a crystallized image - appeared in 2005, during the first, short-term experience of cooperation with TNT. “We wanted to try to turn Pakhom into an anti-Grishkovets. But Pakhomych turned it the other way: at his request, we bought a bath from which he was going to broadcast, ordered a neon inscription "Pahom-TV". There was an agreement that he would not swear, but, naturally, when he entered his state, he forgot about the ban, and the pilot just lay on the shelf of the studio, ”says Kotomin. His son Pavel shares his thoughts: “Pakhomov is an absorbent organism, and Pakhom is a spewing one. Pahom is not capable of social life, he lives in the realm of complete absurdity, and Sergey can still solve everyday issues. But it seems to me that Pakhom is gradually absorbing Sergei Pakhomov. It can reach the absolute. Kondukov did not miss a single performance by Pakhom at that time: “These are spiritually invoking psychedelic stories, like those of Peter Murphy and Mark Almond, such iconic martyrs. And in a way he was one of them. He always figured in the border area, he could leave in the evening for a drink and return without teeth. It was this that drew me - men generally try to communicate with those from whom such a good spirit of danger comes, ”a slight sadness glides in Kondukov’s voice. I ask Pakhomov how he managed to move away from a destructive lifestyle: “I drank every day for 30 years. But physics fails, all sorts of washings, cleanings, hospitals are necessary, I'm too lazy. I thought, I'd rather not drink, I'd rather be ... [shit] - and that's it. I don't have a tower. I'm like a thief in law, without a tower. I am free. I may drink, I may not drink, I may be an alcoholic, I may not be. And I can not. I can do everything. Well, to be interesting, the main thing. So that there is movement."

“I like to be dismissive of money. That is, their … [to have sexual intercourse], I like it. … [to have sexual intercourse] money. Important point. For them to moan." The last fifteen years of Pakhomov's work are in good commercial demand. Photo: Ivan Kaidash 9.40. Sunday. The road to Yalta in Gembel's minibus. The news is being read that Sergei was included in the list of candidates nominated by the public for deputies of the State Duma from the Omsk region. The recent story with the restart of Kinopoisk comes to mind, when users dissatisfied with the redesign began to bring The Green Elephant to the top of the best films in the history of cinema as a sign of protest. At the time the issue went to press, the AP rating was 9.1 with almost thirty thousand voters. This is more than, for example, the film "The Cranes Are Flying", 71st on the list. In the top 250 films, "Elephant", however, is absent. Yandex declined to comment. Pahom was used to his name becoming synonymous with mild defiance of the system. “I present to people a pretty instrument. I bring it into the mainstream as an arrogant element, and the mainstream is covered with chips and cracks from the inside,” he says as we drive up to the building that should be turned into the house of the grandmother of the main character of “Bonus”. Vladimir Yarin shows on his iPad the references drawn by Pakhom in his trademark grotesque-iconic style. We will obviously have to tinker with the house we arrived at: there is not an ounce of the desired magic in it, an ordinary condo on the seashore, built by people who have not gone far from the caricatured world of new Russians. For Pakhomov, incomplete compliance with the reference is not a problem, but a task. Soon, cues like “white, glowing blue, or white matte?” and suggestions to make wood out of linoleum, stone out of linen, and iron out of plastic. 12.40. Miskhor. Having dealt with matters, we stand and smoke on the serpentine. Pahom calls what he does DJing: tuning into several waves of consciousness and going into a trance. The throat is cold either from the cold wind, or from the thought that in order to understand this person, one must write not a journal article, but a monograph. “I think that now in this mixed world of ours, where a terrible mixer reigns, which grinds everything, where you can’t take eggplants and cut them neatly with a knife. In this world, to be, you have to be like me, in all forms, ”when Pahom starts talking with quotes from his own famous stand-ups, he becomes completely uneasy.

Musician Sergei Pakhomov won less fame than the artist and even more so the medium, but here he found his own style. It is difficult to doubt the chthonic nature of his musical performances - when the “4 positions of Bruno” came to Moscow for the first time, the second group that evening was “Pahom and Vivisector”, and it was clearly visible that both teams wanted to climb exactly on dark side moon. Sergey took up music in the early eighties. His first group "Ju Om" was conceived as an ensemble of the mentally ill. On one of the few videos left from Ju Om, a member of the Berendey group recites the following verse: “Three sausages from shit / To the inhabitant behind the collar, / My music is needed / Only artists and thieves.” Few testimonials about Ju Om come from hippie websites. Yes, we are all hippies. But we were still strangers there, we were such fighting hippies who could punch us in the face, many looked askance at us. It is important for me to break out of context. When you know the rules, you can break them more gracefully, ”Pakhomov puts it on the shelves. He studied music himself - thanks to his mother, Sergei often visited the Conservatory and the Bolshoi Theater, and his awareness is evidenced by the fact that at the age of seventeen he got a Terry Riley record. In the eighties he was already enough famous artist and he could buy himself not only rare records, but also precious instruments - he took his favorite congas from both David Tukhmanov and the obscure garage Kulibins. “And then no one played percussion, it was also a kind of non-conformism. In general, it's easy to play anti-music if you've listened to it a lot. We did a parody of the avant-garde, it was considered capitalist shit then, but, in fact, it was the maximum punk - they played until the last spectator. Often in all sorts of strange places, in the halls, on the streets, in the middle of the audience at someone else's concert. We were beaten, the police were called. I remember musical critic Tatyana Didenko shouted: “Hooligans, hooligans!” And three days later she called me and said that it dawned on her that it was a fucking concert, ”Pakhomov chuckles. Mikhail Vivisector says: “Our performances usually began with drunken cries and the clink of glasses. But when we paused in the middle with silence, you could hear that no one was drinking anything, everyone was sitting silently, buried in the stage. He knows how to take control of a crowd of even the most inadequate people, to drag them into his cinema.” Mikhail retells the story of how he and Pakhomov were on tour from Estonia and the Russian border guards, when checking documents, raised everyone by their ears, forced them to stand up and squat, comparing faces with photographs. the only person, who was not touched and was not even asked to show his passport, was Pahom. “They are alien to mysticism, completely oak martinet, they cannot be suspected of suggestibility. And he did them at one moment, - the Vivisector gets excited and then voices another assumption why Grandfather Pahom left the "Battle of Psychics": - I expected something like that from him. Because he is a master at throwing such tricks. He cannot walk in a straight line. He can't be like everyone else."

16.21. Sunday. In the bus.“Everything comes from my childhood, from the fantasy consciousness. It's nice to be a resident, a spy like that, to change everything all the time. Why? It is because of the imagination, because of the terrible fear of death - the desire to live some more life, or better - many lives. I understand those who change sex because they want to have a new experience in another body. Find yourself again.