1961 - graduated from Musical College in Sverdlovsk (piano - class
of Isaac Zetel (the pupil of Genrih Neigauz)
1965 - organized an avant-garde group of poets and painters- experimentators
"Uktusskaia Shkola" (1965-1974) and founded manuscript magazine
"Nomer" (number, volume, issue);
1965-1967 - studied in Theater, Music and Cinema Institute
1971 - the first visual poems and ready-made poems
1973 - the first vacuum poems, the first poems-tables
1976 - book-art (book-halves, spiral books and books-..)
1978 - the first vector poems
1979 - founded avant-garde magazine "Transponance", mainly
dedicated to experimental and visual poetry (36 issues till 1986; in that
magazine participated Igor Behterev, Dimity Prigov, Vladislav Lion, Lev
Kropivnitsky, Yury Leiderman, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Ilya Kabakov, Boris
Konstriktor and many others poets and artists of underground; since #28
magazine was released in the form of "Rea-Structures"; the most
part of issues one can find at "Ruth and Marvin Suckner Archive of
Visual and Concrete Poetry", USA)
1982 - gesticulation poems (the first public performances in 1984
in Leningrad at "Club-81",
since 1990 at avant-garde festivals in Smolensk, Tambov, Kiev, clubs
in Moscow,
1984 - at International Sound Poetry in Berlin and at the festival "Polyfonix-26"
in Budapest)
1983 - visual poems on disks (disk-poems), The Manifesto of Vandalism
as Poetry Style, Manifesto of Coulinart as eatable poetry
1984 - a series of performances (in cooperation with B. Constrictor
and Serguei Sigay) at Leningrad underground stage; action poetry (poems
on bodies of audience, recitals with color loudspeakers, recitals with
simultaneous picture illustrations)
1987 - the first participation at international exhibition of visual
poetry in Mexico (other exhibitions and publication in catalogues: Poetry:
new inscriptions, new ideas, Amadora, Portugal, 1988 - The first international
Exhibition of visual poetry in Sao Paolo, Brazil, 1988 - Transfuror: visual
poetry from Brazil, Soviet Union and German-language countries, Kassel-Berlin,
1990-1992; Visual poetry, Gotha Museum, Germany, 1990 - The third international
exhibition of Visual Poetry, Melbourne, Australia, 1993 - Peace Poem/World
Poem, Figuereda da Foz, Portugal, 1993 - International Visual Poetry, San
Kilbda, Australia 1995 )
1989 - the first Russian prose publication: The Scotchman Trial,
Trento, Italy: "Serge Sigay in Italy" Publication, 189 (the other
publications in Chernovik, 1989, #1, ibid. 1992, #6, ibid. 1990, #4, 1991,
#5, Credo, 1993, #1-2, Gumanitarnyi Fond, 1992, #42, Volga, 1995, #7, URBI,
1996, #8)
1991 - foundation of international limited (50 copies, 6 volumes)
assemblage magazine "Double", dedicated to visual and vacuum
poetry
