
Mask is a method in Institute that enables individual and collective to reach specific artistic state in wich one is transforming in other entity all in a sense of creating new musical achivement, deeply conected with inner personality and, what is more important, with all surroundings, material and spiritual, in one. This makes Institute functioning like a very specific artistic tribe, and occurres only during performance and it’s work. Everything is natural and free, but in the same time, serious and extatic; in the same time rational and irational, aware and unware. Mask coexists also with costumes, caps, shoes, which are also individualy created and, all of it, is maticulosely ordered in specific Institute degrees. Mask is not obligatory, it depens of a moment, and there is no regularity. Mask can be individual and usualy is made by a person on its own face directly, but it can also be made of anything, or can be just a sign or a kind of ornament or adorning. There is initiation mask (when one is recived in Institute) that other memebrs make on novice face (usualy tipe of frute, vegetable or woods plants mask, togeather with some colorfull clothes etc.), but also a novice can make it by himself too, if he likes. There is lot of types of masks: Fruit mask, Wood mask, Watter mask, Winter mask, Mud mask, Konh mask (this can be of any other type), “After cataclismic mask”, etc. (number of types is infinite and depends of Institute member’s creation and imagination).
Mask can be used on the concerts, recordings, expeditions, etc. Again, is not necessery to be used. This things are to be sensed, or collectivly decided. Mask helps much and presents very colorful, important and interesting aspect of Institute. Mask is also devided in historical periods and “by memebers”, and in some special segments like “Initiation Mask”, “Konhs” and “Institution of armchair”. Also there is a segment of Costumes, which is further divided in: Hats & Caps, Glasses, Clothes, Gloves, Pants, Shoes, “Side sticks”, etc.