Group "SOAP" (Dmitry Petukhov, Semyon Motolyanets) Performance "WORK WEEK" at the plant "Uralmash" in a special program of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial in 2010 1 ton of laundry soap, 10 electric stoves, 10 enamel basins, asphalt paver, water, five labor days Summing up the results of the performance or action, which took place on September 8-13, 2010 at the plant "Uralmash", the group would like to highlight a few details. The first detail is the search for a format for this kind of project. "Performance without an audience." Prolonged projects that take place and play on the problems of the modern worker, a routine. To act on the principle of choosing the format most acceptable to the viewer is a false path with a "dead-end" development. Mobility is not a panacea, but the speed of accessibility of the work, which is not a fundamental criterion for us. Russian contemporary art, or rather its advertising, represents contemporary art as yet another of its many forms of entertainment. Tickets for the Biennale are understandably expensive (4 loaves of bread), but it is necessary to attract a viewer. The second detail of the documentation of the project, rather interesting artifacts (video, photo) to the authors themselves than the audience. Presence is the most important foundation of performance art, which is impossible because of the time dimension. The third detail is the interesting format of the explanation, the broadcasting directly at the moment of the performance's origin. And there is only one reason for this: the desire to be understood by the public, "here and now", coming from the organizers of the biennale. The catalyzing of the process of awareness, leading to a failure to give one's own "personal" evaluation of a particular work, leads the viewer to the adequate question of freedom of interpretation. The diktat of art history concepts broadcast near any art object displaces the viewer into the unconcerned zone of the "outside observer". But these are observations that relate more to personal experience of contemporary art than to criticism of the Biennale. Thanks to the organizers of the Biennale, the Soap Group spent five full working days at the closed Uralmash factory, in order to understand the process of production. We brewed "soap from soap" without having the final result of this action, without improving or deteriorating its properties. The process of passing through the passageway, work, returning from work at key periods of time - this is the object of our study in this project. The cyclicity of the work week with its apotheosis, the weekend, is a rhythm of humanity "simple as five kopecks". But this rhythm needs to be understood, what place it occupies on the segment. Born - dead.