A rare VHS-footage from our very first public action, the insane happening dedicated to the number fifty-six.

Fun fact: the history of 56 Stuff as an art community started from an exhibition, and a rather strange one. Probably it’s more accurate to call it a kind of public statement which makes no obvious sense except for “Fifty-six is an awesome number, woo-hoo!”.

It was all about fifty-six: from the name of the event to its original soundtrack which had a tempo of 56 beats per minute. Fifty-six was the main theme and the protagonist of the whole endeavor. The space was filled with hundreds of seemingly unrelated objects, united only by fifty-six: be it a huge metal plate from a tram number 56 or a tiny 56-second sand glass.

Why exactly 56? The most informative answer we can give here is “Why not?”.

November 2, 1998. St. Petersburg, Russia
Filmed on VHS by Few.
Music is taken from the exhibition soundtrack by DJ 5 & DJ 6.