Pahom's face. Sergey Pakhomov is a psychic. Indeed?! What about in real life

This fall, the 16th season of the Battle of Psychics program started. Without a doubt, for several episodes of the show, viewers have their favorites, which can now be safely called one of the brightest in the history of the show. Fans of the project, presenter, experts and many who happened to witness discoveries on the set, definitely singled out the extraordinary participant Ded Pakhom.

Even in the first episode of the show, the man struck the imagination of the public not so much with his abilities as with the manner in which they were presented. For example, he appeared in slippers, during the performance of tasks in a very expressive way he entered a trance, but in the end the result stunned the participants of the show. Pahom was even asked to repeat the result, which he did brilliantly. The psychic amazed and made me laugh and cry. In a word, from series to series, the attention of the audience was riveted to him. Everyone was waiting to see how he would show himself next time.

Experts and guests of the show praised the psychic's abilities and recognized that he really has a special gift to feel and see what others cannot. The proof was the decision of the judges in the "Battle of Psychics" to recognize Pakhom as the best psychic of the week based on the results of the last issue. But few could have expected that in an instant Ded Pahom would stop fighting for victory.

In the new episode of the show, which viewers had the opportunity to see today, Sergey Pakhomov (the real name of the psychic. - Editor's note) suddenly announced his departure. It turned out that the decision of the project participant was connected not so much with the desire to stop fighting for the title of the best of the best, but with an attempt to help out colleagues.

Two other participants, demonstrating abilities in tandem, the mother and daughter of Voronova, had to leave by decision of the judges. It was their names that were in the black envelope. When this was found out, Pahom hastened to intervene in the current course of events and announced his intention to leave instead of the Voronovs. The decision of the psychic shocked not only the viewers, but also the creators of the show themselves - no one expected such an outcome. The noble gesture of Sergei Pakhomov was accepted by the mother and daughter of the Voronovs with gratitude, although they did not hide the fact that this decision surprised them.

Pakhom's act has already begun to be actively discussed by viewers on social networks. Many expressed indignation, but supported the psychic, recognizing that he is still the best for them, and he has already become a real favorite of thousands of fans of the show. And someone reconsidered their attitude towards Sergei. After all, it's no secret to anyone that he always caused an ambiguous attitude, because he could react in a peculiar way, behave in a peculiar way. But this situation allowed people to understand that a man is able to give up everything to save someone else.

It is possible that Ded Pakhom's decision was not spontaneous, as it might seem at first glance. Probably, the project participant realized much earlier that he managed to prove everything to himself and others, and therefore did not see the point in continuing this game. What the psychic was actually guided by when he announced his desire to leave the “Battle of Psychics” remains to be guessed.

Pahom is not accustomed to speak frankly about himself. , which he gave the day before, the psychic admitted that it is much more important for him to create a certain image for the audience. “I form a myth about myself,” Pahom said. - Therefore, just now everything is according to the laws of myth, reticence. The feeling that people experience when looking at me is more important to me now than some kind of concretization. I will not in any way give a reason to find out something about me. I'd rather be confused. To a greater extent, even lead away from the truth.

psychic Sergei Pakhomov (Pakhom).
Biography: grandfather Pahom, a scandalous artist (Green Elephant), a crazy artist and a well-known holy fool in Moscow. Homeless grandfather Sergey Pahom (Green Elephant) is a foolish psychic, deliberately falls into a state of trance, his techniques and practices are like a crazy dance.
Pahom is the most amazing member new battle. He successfully draws, acts and sings. He says that he felt the Messiah.

Official site of psychic Sergei Pakhomov (pakhom's grandfather), where you can ask him questions and make an appointment .

Participant in 2015 on the TNT channel. , why did he suddenly leave the 16th battle as a test leader?

How Sergey Pakhomov was tested, reviews, abilities:
+ He found a man in the trunk. The host Safronov decided to double-check and asked Pakhom to go through this test again. And the second time he found again .. For the first time in the history of the Battle.
+ in the drawings I was able to figuratively show what was hidden behind the screen;
+ I was able to find my photo from 11 others.
+ I was able to find the house from the photo and clear the site of the restless dead.
+ was able to determine who is dead and who is alive by a love spell;
+ can find needles in the house and remove the curse on himself;
+ can find a person who physically changed gender;
+ can determine whether a person is alive or dead from a photo;
+ can find out what is hidden in the black box;
- could not find a person who is in danger;

How strong psychic Sergei Pakhomov (holy fool Pahom) on a 3-point system: 3 (according to the results of tests on TV)
(1 - none; 2 - something can, something is not; 3 - a strong psychic)

Photo: Ivan Kaidash

You must have heard: Sergey Pakhomov, artist, musician, actor, art director, meme and just an outstanding personality (as he himself says, “… piss who I am”), now also the holy fool psychic Grandfather Pahom. Sergey came to TNT for the sixteenth season of the "Battle of Psychics", passed a series of tests and voluntarily left the program, giving way to the duet of Iolanta and Rossa, against whom the jury voted. Under the guns of the cameras, Grandfather Pahom explained his act with a desire to do a good deed. For six episodes, Pakhom was recognized by the face of about ten million Russians - the ratings of the show are comparable only with the indicators of the President's New Year's greetings. Pahom grew up in an incomplete family. His father, a professor of microbiology, broke up with his mother when Sergei was still a child. As a child, Pakhomov had hallucinations and visions, he could cry for six hours just thinking about the death of his mother. “And I had all the experiences in my life. What I think is what I feel. When a child is alone in the family, this indicates pain. I try to aestheticize everything, including her. This is a good tool for knowing the world: through suffering, through psychosis. But my pain is always on the verge of a masquerade, which is important. Because, of course, I am for life, not for death, ”Pakhomov and I met a week after the last issue of the“ Battle of Psychics ”was shown with his participation. “Grandfather Pahom is a collective image. Such a mythologeme of Russian culture, a kind of simpleton who does not wipe his nose, does not cut his nails. The voice of the people,” Sergey explains. Maria Shaikevich, the permanent producer of the “Battle of Psychics” program, talks about Sergey: “He is a hypersensitive person, and what is this if not a psychic? We didn't want him to leave. They gave him victory." A TV source confirmed that Pahom was the favorite of both the jury and the audience: according to polls, he gained 50% of the votes, three times ahead of the closest pursuer. I ask Pahom if he sees his own fate as a medium. "Of course. Such an even illumination. It's called delusions of grandeur."

In painting, Pakhomov fluctuates between abstractionism, icon painting and popular prints: “I like pseudo-metaphorism, pseudo-banality, the likeness of something, something that looks like a glimpse of thought, but exactly what it looks like, because it becomes more significant this way” Photo: Ivan Kaidash 6.32. Saturday. Crimea.“Good morning, Great Moloch,” Sergey Pakhomov greets me in a wasteland five steps from the central square of Balaklava. Time is running out. Sergey started the morning with coffee and Ariel Pink's latest album; in the car, artist Vladimir Yarin offers to have a bite to eat with fried red mullet, as well as Pakhomov, who works on the set of Valeria Gai Germanika's new series "Bonus". In a series of fantastic metamorphoses, Pakhom was thrown here as a production designer. On the way, I ask Pakhomov what unites them with Germanicus. Cabaret style? "Maybe yes. When I lived in Berlin, I went to old cabarets, absorbed the music of Klaus Nomi. We are united with Germanicus by strength and helplessness. Or the power of helplessness. The idea of ​​greatness through squalor is close to me,” he explains. Pakhomov draws my attention to the similarity of the patchwork insulation of Khrushchev houses with the paintings of Paul Klee, animatedly talks about the filming of the Big Top Show in Simeiz, but when the conversation deviates from the knurled rails of social conversation, he suddenly becomes serious: “In art, you can go towards perfection. And you can go back to destruction. But even there you need to look for your own rhythms, your own logic of decay, be able to identify cyclicity. We are talking about the "Green Elephant" - an artifact of the nineties, a deeply metaphorical chamber drama, against the idea of ​​the authors last years a real internet hit. “It could only be filmed in that cheap style; I understand and love everything ugly, wretched and ugly. Because it’s beautiful,” Pahom’s voice trembles, and tears are about to well up in his eyes. In the scattered rays of the sun breaking through gray clouds he looks like a big baby.

Another important impression of Pakhomov's childhood is the lubok, understood as a kind of picture of the world. This is noticeable in his painting - bright, contrasting colors, rough but accurate descriptiveness, ubiquitous inscriptions - from quite clear to abstract and self-sufficient. “Homosexual master”, “Freedom, equality and brotherhood, I love to touch”, “Sof Yaots Zyuyul”. For the first time he was shown on TV in the late eighties in the program "Look" precisely as a painter. He sold his paintings on the streets of Moscow, and in the early nineties he went on a long journey: he painted the Berlin Wall, was friends with Parisian bohemia and received grants in New York. Apparently, he was really successful: Pakhomov participated in the landmark collective exhibitions of the eighties, and in the 2000s he had a completely brilliant gallery history. What is the incident with the acquisition of Saatchi one of the artist's monumental works - "I Pahom" - sixteen wooden boards with the same inscription, united in a giant panel. Paintings, videos, photographs, and Pakhom's life itself are clearly subject to the principles of seriality. Take "Blaue Hand" - an installation in Berlin, consisting of three hundred shots of Pahom's hand in a blue glove, falling into interesting life situations. “I am generally a supporter of banality. You know, I like people who tell jokes, but the same joke is better. And it is ideal for a person to pronounce one word in general - we are sitting with Pakhom in a cafe. - So I dreamed of such a person, and then the wooden hero appeared in an American film, he said there: "I am Groot." Now the husk is leaving and only “I am Katya”, “I am Petya”, “I am John” remain. Nothing else. Because there are many songs, there are many worms, there are many wars - just a lot. Material values leave. Wanting is no longer important, doing is also. But the moment of identification is important.” Sergei Pakhomov does not hide the fact that he perceives life as a creative act, and a biography as a work of art. This approach correlates with the attitudes of the late Soviet nonconformists - Mamleev, Prigov, Sorokin, Zverev. He crossed paths with many of them in his youth. “You just need to understand where we came from, where we are going,” Sergey finishes eating his noodles, and people are whispering around us in a tiny cafe. The words “Pahom”, “battle” and “elephant” are well heard.

One of the main achievements of Pakhomov is the development of a recognizable image that people turn to: “During the times of thaw, I created my own world with my demons, everything is like in a good Japanese manga. That's why teenagers love me so much, because I'm a familiar hero for them, such a shitting, cheerful grandfather, and even a sorcerer. This is a single picture that you can take and paste anywhere - from rock opera to documentary film»

Photo: Ilya Batrakov

Photo: Ilya Batrakov

10.30. Saturday. Simferopol, railway station. None of those with whom I had a chance to communicate throughout my career were approached by so many people for an autograph or just with a question as to Sergey Pakhomov. He unquestioningly paints other people's notebooks and stands under the sight of smartphone cameras. “My friend from Holland made a vase from a booger. I sat in the morning, put my finger in my nose, pulled it out - he liked the shape, he digitized it on the scanner, and it turned out to be an excellent vase. His name is Marcel Wanders, the Moooi company,” Pahom tells about the modern design to the stunned fifty-year-old employees of the station and a couple of police officers. 10.40. There. “You have to really play with yourself. Risk is a very important thing, you need to be open to it. But a lot of sad things happen. It's scary when people take off, but they can't tell the world anything. They do not spit divine spit into the future. You can not send aliens, unfortunately, the songs of Laertsky. They don't give the full picture. But if you send them the songs of Laertsky and Muromov, then the picture will become complete. And what prevents me from being both Muromov and Laertes, and also the whole space between them? Ambitious tasks should be. And the divine spitting must be prepared all the time for spitting, ”Pakhomov argues, taking advantage of a break in filming, sipping tea from a plastic cup. Right hand Pakhomova, Igor Gembel, who light hand superior floor film set calls Goebbels, begins to tell that the third eye closes from fluorine, so teeth need to be brushed with powder. “We have all the patients on the site here. Everything ... [with a shift]. Healthy ones are not needed, ”Pahom lets go on the go. 10.55. There. Loading into the Simferopol-Sevastopol train, in the dining car of which filming is to continue. Germanika and Pakhomov are riding in a compartment. We started. The Motor team is delayed, delayed, delayed - at some point, the art director and director begin to sing "This train is on fire" in chorus. The composition creeps, violating every conceivable law on minimum speed movement, stalker landscapes stretch outside the window. Sergey carefully cleans the sleeve of the jacket from the detected spot. For a man with such a frantic lifestyle, he is extremely economic. “I love jokes. But to me, as a lover of elegance, absurdity seems more subtle than straightforward humor. A joke, not like a joke, something like that, ”says Sergey. 11.40. Deputy enters the car CEO TV channel "Rain" Alexei Kazakov, dressed in a conductor's suit. After releasing a few compliments to Germanika, he begins to tease Pakhomov with the fact that "the scene is not built." “Who is building something? Everything has already been done! Not made by hands is our principle, understood? This is how Crimea is, it is not made by hands,” Sergei waves his hand. However, soon Pakhomov starts up and threatens the team to "bang on the head with Thor's hammer." However, it is already clear from everything that he is not Thor, but Loki, the god of wickedness. Germanika shares her sadness about a car stolen in Moscow. “I want a new one. I wrote to Volkswagen, I'm Germanicus, so that they would give. And she wrote to Skoda - to Octavia (the name of her daughter Valeria. - Approx. ed.). I will name my second child Mercedes, ”the director slaps himself on the stomach.

One of the milestones of the partisan struggle of Sergei Pakhomov was his employment in senior positions in the largest glossy publications. “It was so far from me at that time, the whole structure, these computers - it was interesting for me to start from scratch. And yet carry on all the time double life, keep the concept of the magazine in your head during the day, and go to shoot with Baskova in the evening, ”Pakhomov does not get tired of explaining. Pakhomov's main occupation in the 2000s was stand-up, as strange as the speeches of the One who went from the Green Elephant. To watch Pakhom's performances, every Tuesday, Moscow's bohemian circles climbed a steep fire escape into an unheated room behind the School of the Modern Play theater, converted by restaurateur Arkady Zeltser into either an office or a private club. “The performances themselves could last for two minutes, when the stoned Pahom could yell something, hit his forehead against the wall and fall. But after that he got up, brushed himself off, went out to the people and, as if nothing had happened, conducted elegant secular conversations,” laughs Alexander Kondukov, editor-in-chief of the domestic Rolling Stone. Chief Editor publishing house Ad Marginem Mikhail Kotomin recalls: “I was struck by his drive. It was cold, but Pakhomych in Sorokin's narratives warmed himself up so much that at some point he took off his sheepskin coat and remained in his shorts, not noticing what was happening around. Pakhomov's manner was, on the one hand, shaped by tram brawlers, city lunatics, street preachers, and on the other hand, by the conceptual poet Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov: “He knew how to look at himself from the side during a performance. Little Prigov controlled the big one. Like any world-famous performance artist, Prigov understood that he could not let go of ecstasy completely. Uncontrolled madness is simply not interesting.” Pahom himself - as a name, as a crystallized image - appeared in 2005, during the first, short-term experience of cooperation with TNT. “We wanted to try to turn Pakhom into an anti-Grishkovets. But Pakhomych turned it the other way: at his request, we bought a bath from which he was going to broadcast, ordered a neon inscription "Pahom-TV". There was an agreement that he would not swear, but, naturally, when he entered his state, he forgot about the ban, and the pilot just lay on the shelf of the studio, ”says Kotomin. His son Pavel shares his thoughts: “Pakhomov is an absorbent organism, and Pakhom is a spewing one. Pahom is not capable of social life, he lives in the realm of complete absurdity, and Sergey can still solve everyday issues. But it seems to me that Pakhom is gradually absorbing Sergei Pakhomov. It can reach the absolute. Kondukov did not miss a single performance by Pakhom at that time: “These are spiritually invoking psychedelic stories, like those of Peter Murphy and Mark Almond, such iconic martyrs. And in a way he was one of them. He always figured in the border area, he could leave in the evening for a drink and return without teeth. This was what drew me - men generally try to communicate with those from whom such a good spirit of danger comes, ”a slight sadness glides in Kondukov’s voice. I ask Pakhomov how he managed to move away from a destructive lifestyle: “I drank every day for 30 years. But physics fails, all sorts of washings, cleanings, hospitals are necessary, I'm too lazy. I thought, I'd rather not drink, I'd rather be ... [shit] - and that's it. I don't have a tower. I'm like a thief in law, without a tower. I am free. I may drink, I may not drink, I may be an alcoholic, I may not be. And I can not. I can do everything. Well, to be interesting, the main thing. So that there is movement."

“I like to be dismissive of money. That is, their … [to have sexual intercourse], I like it. … [to have sexual intercourse] money. Important point. For them to moan." The last fifteen years of Pakhomov's work are in good commercial demand. Photo: Ivan Kaidash 9.40. Sunday. The road to Yalta in Gembel's minibus. The news is being read that Sergei was included in the list of candidates nominated by the public for deputies of the State Duma from the Omsk region. The recent story with the restart of Kinopoisk comes to mind, when users dissatisfied with the redesign began to bring the Green Elephant to the top in protest best films in the history of cinema. At the time the issue went to press, the AP rating was 9.1 with almost thirty thousand voters. This is more than, for example, the film "The Cranes Are Flying", 71st on the list. In the top 250 films, "Elephant", however, is absent. Yandex declined to comment. Pahom was used to his name becoming synonymous with mild defiance of the system. “I present to people a pretty instrument. I bring it into the mainstream as an arrogant element, and the mainstream is covered with chips and cracks from the inside,” he says as we drive up to the building that should be turned into the house of the grandmother of the main character of “Bonus”. Vladimir Yarin shows on his iPad the references drawn by Pakhom in his trademark grotesque-iconic style. We will obviously have to tinker with the house we arrived at: there is not an ounce of the desired magic in it, an ordinary condo on the seashore, built by people who have not gone far from the caricatured world of new Russians. For Pakhomov, incomplete compliance with the reference is not a problem, but a task. Soon, cues like “white, glowing blue, or white matte?” and suggestions to make wood out of linoleum, stone out of linen, and iron out of plastic. 12.40. Miskhor. Having dealt with matters, we stand and smoke on the serpentine. Pahom calls what he does DJing: tuning into several waves of consciousness and going into a trance. The throat is cold either from the cold wind, or from the thought that in order to understand this person, one must write not journal article, but a monograph. “I think that now in this mixed world of ours, where a terrible mixer reigns, which grinds everything, where you can’t take eggplants and cut them neatly with a knife. In this world, in order to be, you have to be like me, in all forms, ”when Pahom starts talking with quotes from his own famous stand-ups, he becomes completely uneasy.

Musician Sergei Pakhomov won less fame than the artist and even more so the medium, but here he found his own style. It is difficult to doubt the chthonic nature of his musical performances - when Bruno's 4 Positions came to Moscow for the first time, the second group that evening was Pahom and Vivisector, and it was clearly visible that both teams wanted to climb exactly on dark side moon. Sergey took up music in the early eighties. His first group "Ju Om" was conceived as an ensemble of the mentally ill. On one of the few videos left from Ju Om, a member of the Berendey group recites the following verse: “Three sausages from shit / To the inhabitant behind the collar, / My music is needed / Only artists and thieves.” Few testimonials about Ju Om come from hippie websites. Yes, we are all hippies. But we were still strangers there, we were such fighting hippies who could punch us in the face, many looked askance at us. It is important for me to break out of context. When you know the rules, you can break them more gracefully, ”Pakhomov puts it on the shelves. He studied music himself - thanks to his mother, Sergei often visited the Conservatory and the Bolshoi Theater, and his awareness is evidenced by the fact that at the age of seventeen he got a Terry Riley record. In the eighties, he was already a fairly well-known artist and could buy himself not only rare records, but also precious instruments - he took his favorite congas from both David Tukhmanov and the unknown garage Kulibins. “And no one played percussion then, it was also a kind of non-conformism. In general, it's easy to play anti-music if you've listened to it a lot. We did a parody of the avant-garde, it was considered capitalist shit then, but, in fact, it was the maximum punk - they played until the last spectator. Often in all sorts of strange places, in the halls, on the streets, in the middle of the audience at someone else's concert. We were beaten, the police were called. I remember that music critic Tatyana Didenko shouted: “Hooligans, hooligans!” And three days later she called me and said that it dawned on her that it was a fucking concert, ”Pakhomov chuckles. Mikhail Vivisector says: “Our performances usually began with drunken cries and the clink of glasses. But when we paused in the middle with silence, it was heard that no one was drinking anything, everyone was sitting silently, buried in the stage. He knows how to take control of a crowd of even the most inadequate people, to drag them into his cinema.” Mikhail retells the story of how he and Pakhomov were on tour from Estonia and the Russian border guards, when checking documents, raised everyone by the ears, forced them to stand up and squat, comparing faces with photographs. the only person, who was not touched and was not even asked to show his passport, was Pahom. “They are alien to mysticism, completely oak martinet, they cannot be suspected of suggestibility. And he did them at one moment, - the Vivisector gets excited and then voices another assumption why Grandfather Pahom left the "Battle of Psychics": - I expected something like that from him. Because he is a master at throwing such tricks. He cannot walk in a straight line. He can't be like everyone else."

16.21. Sunday. In the bus.“Everything comes from my childhood, from the fantasy consciousness. It's nice to be a resident, a spy like that, to change everything all the time. Why? It is because of the imagination, because of the terrible fear of death - the desire to live some more life, or better - many lives. I understand those who change sex because they want to get new experience in another body. Find yourself again.

On September 19, the 16th season of one of the highest-rated Russian reality shows "The Battle of Psychics" started on TNT. One of the new participants in the project unexpectedly became Sergey Pakhomov - artist, artist and master of extreme stand-up. He is also familiar to connoisseurs of underground Russian cinema from Svetlana Baskova's films Five Bottles of Vodka, For Marx, The Head and, of course, The Green Elephant - Pakhomov's hero from this picture has long been a source of endless memes on the Internet. This time, Sergei acted in a new role for himself as a psychic and instantly broke into the favorites of the "Battle". Gazeta.Ru contacted the artist to find out how this metamorphosis happened.

- How did you end up in the "Battle of Psychics"?

- On the one hand, I decided to refute the myth that exists in the mass consciousness that you can’t get on any program common man. I read on the Internet how it is done, went to the qualifying meetings, filled out the questionnaire and eventually got into the list of participants on a general basis. On the other hand, I had to apply my abilities somewhere - especially since I had been striving for this for a long time. In general, I chose the program according to my profile. Psychic goes to psychics, right?

And I'm not only a psychic, but I also like to perform - so I went on television.

- But you already have a popular image thanks to your role in Svetlana Baskova's film "The Green Elephant", in which you use a lot of foul language, eat feces ...

“So the “Green Elephant” is also a magical practice! If we consider social rules as a reality - you can't eat shit, you can't talk about it - then any meaningful destruction of this reality is magic. A slap in the face of public taste is magic, an outlet to other forms of perception.

The "Green Elephant" was ahead of its time and now gradually merges with it - like Bach's music, which is compared to a huge aqueduct from the past to the future.

Of course, some bold projects always cause a sharp reaction from people. That is why in performances I use dirty talk, some provocative things. At the same time, I like to combine, push it with some naive, sincere things, with beautiful music. In a sense, the same thing is happening now, when the familiar image is faced with the fact that the audience is opening me in a new quality.

- It is believed that the "Battle of Psychics" is a fake, staged show. Did you have such suspicions when you went to the casting?

- In general, the audience of the “Battle of Psychics”, in my opinion, is usually underestimated, although they are much more attentive and energetically stronger than ill-wishers and hysterics who pour mud on the program. I believe in people, I love them and I’m sure that they themselves will figure it out whether to believe those who say, for example, that I’m actually a vile shit-eater from the Green Elephant, and not the good grandfather Pahom. They will see that here, in the "Battle", and there was the same powerful kindness. As for the transfer, there is no set-up: I come to the test and only at the shooting itself, when the host announces the task, I find out what will be discussed.

The ritual, which in fact are the rules of the project, is valuable in itself, since it has already become part of reality.

Truthfulness is very important here, the moment of interaction with human destinies is important, which in this case is clear and close to me. Unlike, for example, hockey and football, which I don’t watch because I don’t understand at all, although I appreciate the love of others for them. In addition, the public's doubts about the veracity, in my opinion, only make the program more interesting - I am also guided by this principle in my performances. I am generally an enemy of unambiguity.

How long ago did you have supernatural powers?

- Well, it all started with childhood hallucinations, coincidences, hits, some kind of shock ... Later, when people shared their troubles with me, I was imbued with their grief and gave some strange, wild advice that I myself could not explain, but nevertheless it helped to cope with problems. I tried to explain this force for a long time, but in the end I just accepted it as it is and began to work with it. My techniques involve complete dispersal, absolute loss of will, I don't care at all - it's such an almost Buddhist state. When I fall into a trance, I can no longer explain how, what and why it comes to me, I just understand that I need to do this and that. By the way, it seems to me that this state is very in the spirit of the time in which we live. Today, after all, a great style is gone, there are no ideologies, no values, but there are many points of view on any issue, and each of them is correct to some extent.

The division into truth and untruth has disappeared - it is quite possible to assume that the Earth stands on three whales, and that a person dies while sleeping.

In general, the worldview has become fractional. AT modern world, in my opinion, everything exists at the same time: both miracles and harsh reality, and objective reality, which relates to people, let's say, detachedly. So, you just have to do what you want, irrationally. At the same time, the need for a new culture, new activities, some kind of transformation has matured. This is what I do, I really like to fit into reality in this way.

- You are used to be perceived as an artist, actor, performer. Is this activity for you also somehow connected with extrasensory perception?

“Of course, doing art is magic. After all, I have some abilities not because I am an artist, but, on the contrary, I rather became an artist precisely because of my abilities. In my performances, I also resort to trance practices, doing the same thing as on the air of the Battle. The logical system is turned off at these moments, I fall into a state of such controlled madness, watching myself from the side. I manage my unconsciousness without lowering its degree.

I call this state of feeling scalded, from which I always came out completely different.

Actually, I went to television, among other things, because I wanted to test this practice of controlled trance in some other conditions.

- That is, there is no fundamental difference in the type of activity between the stage and the screen for you?

- Yes, that's right. In general, I live like this all my life, I trust my trance. For some, my life trajectory looks filled with fearlessness and randomness. I do not cooperate with any institutions, I do not follow the beaten paths. I have a principle that I take on any business that interests me and do it well. My popularity is connected with this - after all, this is also a strange, wonderful phenomenon, considering that I did not study this anywhere. I believe that nothing can stop me from doing what I want. Roughly speaking, I am sure that I could become a good journalist, even if I was deaf and could neither read nor speak.

Nowadays, this is quite possible. It seems to me that people in general are all endowed with some kind of abilities, but they deny themselves them, because a certain conceptual system, logic, with which I have never entered into friendly relations, has been imposed on them.

Absurdity, strangeness, trance, ecstasy have always been closer to me. Russia, Russian culture in general, is characterized by all this, this is the Russian spontaneity, which is often talked about.

Our country is governed by all these strange, irrational laws, and not by the laws of the dollar, the market, or oil. Therefore, I am sure that in order to become a person, one must listen to oneself, be able to hear the language coming from within and already communicate with outside world. Then a special view of the world will appear and the world around will begin to move.

- Well, in conclusion, I must ask: what are you going to do next, after the end of participation in the project? Will you return to performances?

“I have no idea. Any strategy, any programming is, in my opinion, always funny. My consciousness is in a state of semi-levitation, which is why, by the way, I am also loved by young people, who are alien to hardiness. Previously, I sometimes dreamed that everything would be like this one way or another, but now, for ten years already, I stopped dreaming at all. After the “Battle of the Psychics” I may record a new album or do something else, I don’t know.

The main thing is that it helps me understand, feel what kind of world I live in, because it is so complicated that you can go crazy.

Therefore, you must constantly act, otherwise you can dry up and disappear into the damned void.

Sergey Pahom Pakhomov is a showman, underground actor, avant-garde musician, outrageous artist and show participant. He left a noticeable mark in the cinema art, appearing in leading role in the film "Green Elephant", and his music album "Boncha" was called "the first real Russian rap".

Childhood and youth

Sergey Pakhomov (more often known under the pseudonym Pahom) was born in Moscow in 1966. His patronizing zodiac sign was Scorpio. According to him, at the age of 5 he was taken to one of the music schools in the capital, from which he graduated in violin. But Pahom gave up playing the instrument after a tragic accident: once, while walking along an icy street, my mother slipped and fell on the violin.

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In addition to playing the instrument, Sergei Pakhomov is already in early childhood interested in drawing. To develop artistic talent, he graduated from 2 institutions. He completed his education at the Krasnopresnenskaya Art School in 1981.

After her, Pakhom studied at the capital's industrial school, graduated in 1985. Here the guy became interested in icon painting and Russian painting techniques.

Sergei "Pakhom" Pakhomov in childhood and youth ( "Facebook")

In his youth, Pakhomov began to show interest in music and sports. He played in various musical groups and was engaged in wrestling. Pakhom reports that a year before graduating from college, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital named after Kashchenko, where he was sent by the draft board, instead of being sent to the war in Afghanistan.

In the mid-80s, the artist took part in chamber art exhibitions held in apartments and clubs. But in the late 80s, he got the opportunity to demonstrate his skills at art exhibitions in Russia and abroad, in particular in New York and Austria.

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From 1988 to 2000, Sergei Pakhomov had the opportunity to study modern Art in European and American countries. I was able to visit Paris, Berlin and Marseille.

Psychic Pahom also worked as an art director in glossy magazines. From 2002 to 2007, he edited the Elle Decor edition as an artist. In 2008, he was acting art director of Marie Claire magazine, and since July 2009 Pahom has been accepted to the same position in the editorial office. Russian version Elle.

Films and TV projects

Fame Pakhom brought roles in the notorious films directed by Svetlana Baskova "Green Elephant", "Cocky - Running Doctor", "Five Bottles of Vodka" and others. Baskova herself compares joint work with Pakhomov with relationships and, emphasizing that the underground actor is an "integral part" of her paintings.

Sergey "Pakhom" Pakhomov and Svetlana Baskova ( "In contact with")

Sergei Pakhomov is more critical, calling his work in cinema (and not only in it) "a mixture of idiocy and absurdity." The most notable film work of Pakhom was the role of a village peasant, a junior officer who “traveled” in the film The Green Elephant, where the hero relieves himself in the frame. His partner in the plot was the performer of the role of "brother".

The film was created within 2 days. It was difficult for the actors to step over their own fears, playing in some scenes. The absurd and cruel plot of the film was conceived as a protest against Chechen war.

Sergei Pakhomov and Vladimir Epifantsev starred in the film "The Green Elephant" ( Facebook)

As an actor, Sergei also appeared in the director's series. He starred in several episodes of her "School", as well as in " short course happy life"(as a swinger) and "May Ribbons". AT last movie Pakhomov also worked as a production designer. In Baskova's film "For Marx ..." Pahom played the role of the foreman of the foundry of the plant, who kills the owner of the enterprise, the hero Vladimir Epifantsev.

The painting received an award White elephant" in the category "Event of the Year", and was also presented at the "Berlinal-2013" and "Kinotavr".

Sergei "Pakhom" Pakhomov in the film "For Marx" ( "In contact with")

In the artistic circles of the capital, Sergei Pakhomov is a fairly well-known personality. Some call him a "cult character", others call him a "buffoon" and a "social phenomenon". Musical critic Leonid Alexandrovsky said:

“This is a renaissance man from Novokuznetskaya, a violent buffoon in the eye, an always-on swear-box of the bohemian capital.”

In September 2015, Pahom became a member of the scandalous project "The Battle of Psychics - 16". He assures that he knew nothing about the project and never watched a single season. Went there on the recommendation of friends who know him psychic abilities. He impressed the audience with the fact that for the first time in the history of the project he managed to find a hidden person in the trunks of cars twice in a row.

Sergey "Pahom" Pakhomov in the show "Battle of Psychics" ( "In contact with")

For magical "insights" Pahom uses trance immersion, which resembles a strange dance.