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Лучший кадр со свадьбы — не башня, не метро, а момент действия: люди, ритуал, ощущение события.
A city does not exist only of stone, concrete, and structures.
It also exists through stories, beliefs, and invisible forces.
Телебашня в городе.
In Yekaterinburg, towers and underground spaces have long been powerful symbols of the city landscape.
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Метро: вход, станция, тоннель.
At the beginning of the 21st century, two extreme manifestations appeared:
the unfinished TV Tower — the highest expression of the Tower,
and the Metro — the deepest expression of the Underground.
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Общий городской план / район Цирка, если есть.
They came close to each other.
Almost meeting.
According to the myth, the City Giants existed before the city itself.
They were revealed to humans through the Tower and the Metro.
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(фото, где появляется ощущение мифа, например участники или башня с людьми)
From this coincidence, a myth emerged.
The Tower and the Metro were imagined not as constructions, but as manifestations of ancient forces.
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Любой образ с ритуальным ощущением / участники
According to the myth, these forces had existed before the city itself.
Perhaps even before the mountains.
The Tower and the Metro were not merely structures.
They were manifestations of vast and incomprehensible beings.
The Tower and the Metro were imagined as manifestations of City Giants — vast, incomprehensible beings revealed to humans through their visible forms.
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Свадебный момент
Their attraction had reached its peak.
The time had come for their Wedding.
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Участники
But their union required a ritual.
Without it, they could pass each other by, and the Child — the future potential of the city — would never be born.
Without a ritual, their uncontrolled encounter could bring catastrophe.
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Объявление / газета
The myth became a public action.
On August 25–26, 2006, the Wedding of the Tower and the Metro took place in Yekaterinburg.
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Церемония
Artists, residents, and guests became participants in the ritual.
The performance unfolded through several stages:
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Объявление
Announcement of the Wedding
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Церемония
The Wedding ceremony
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Пир
The communal feast
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Изготовление башенок
The Fertilization rite
Participants created miniature images of the Tower — symbolic seeds.
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Метро, размещение башенок
The seeds were carried underground and placed inside the Metro.
The ritual was completed.
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Фото после ритуала / участники / след
A fragmentary urban myth became a lived experience.
The work crossed the boundary between artistic fiction and reality.
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Если есть публикация о возобновлении строительства метро
Days after the ritual, news appeared that construction of the metro, frozen for several years, would resume.
The work proposes a new urban mythology.
The work continues as urban mythology.
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