Sergey Sigey’s (Sigov’s) creative activity was remarkably multifaceted: a researcher, poet, artist, and publisher, he knew how to involve creators of different generations and schools in the „transposition“ of the avant-garde.
Sigey was interested in forgotten names and associations of the zaum futurists: Vasilyisk Gnedov, author of the wordless The Poem of the End, creator of „construemes“ Aleksei Chicherin, and the group 41°.In 1978, together with Ry Nikonova (Anna Tarshis), Sigey founded the group of transfurists who published the magazine Transponans (1979–1987). Thanks to Sigey’s inexhaustible energy and diplomatic talent, the magazine received contributions from leading figures such as the foremost historian of futurism Nikolai Khardzhiev, the last Oberiu member Igor Bakhterev, conceptualists Genrikh Sapgir and Dmitri Prigov, founder of the Helenukt movement Vladimir Erl, and transfurists Boris Constriktor and A. Nik. Almost all of them visited Yeysk, where Sigey and Nikonova lived, and took part in their home performances.
According to Ry Nikonova, Sigey would „slip“ her futurist and constructivist „books and excerpts from books“ to read. From time to time, Ry would take a look at these books, and she developed the artistic discoveries of Gnedov and especially Chicherin—something that is reflected in her correspondence with Dmitri Prigov in 1982–1983.
