AAAAAAAAA is always for Alan

'AAAAAAAAA is always for Alan', 2023

Specially for 'Elevator Litany' solo show at 'Fast Hiss', Stockholm (december 2023)

full documentation:
https://pavelpolshchikov.com/elevator-litany


 “Everyone will be helped. Today I will try to relieve your pain completely or partially. And of course, all body functions will be corrected. You can put water or creams in front of the screen, and they will be charged to heal you”. — Allan Chumak, Moscow TV channel, 1993

In 1990, in the USSR, against the backdrop of liberal reforms, the “Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” was adopted. This law actually abolished the bans on rituals and the dissemination of any religious information that had been in place for decades.
In a matter of months, the amount of officially published religious literature and number of religious organizations increased exponentially. In addition to traditional religions, this “renaissance” affected the occultism and various New Age teachings that had previously existed underground. A distinctive feature of this new religiosity was the fact that the social and political instability of the late USSR, which increased dramatically in the first years after its collapse, was instrumentalized, among other things, by new to this space religious and occult ideas.
Circulations of manuals on practical magic numbered in the tens of thousands; on prime-time television, “healers” and “gurus” conducted sessions of remote healing through the screen. For a large part of the population, escapism has become the only possible survival strategy.