Аннотация:Victor Skersis is one of the founders of the artistic movement called «Moscow conceptualism» in the historical classification. One of the most noticeable actions of the movement was hatching eggs in the nest by the group of young artists in the middle of the 1970s at The Exhibitionof Achievements of National Economy (known under Russian abbreviature VDNH) — the central ideological exposition of the USSR.In 1984 Victor Skersis emigrated to the USA where he lives and works today visiting Russia from time to time for participation in artistic and research life. In 2014 he took part in the VI Ovsiannikov International Aesthetic Conference (OIAC IV) devoted to the philosophy of contemporary art and organized by the Department of Aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University. That event included in its program exhibition of artworks titled «Unobtrusive Catharsis» which the artist took part in bothas a painter and as an actor in the happening where Socrates, performed by Victor Skersis, discussed the phenomenon of catharsis with earlier speakers of the conference and with everybody who felt like that.Перевод с русского текста расшифровки (см. AU. Vol. 2 (6). 2019) выполнила Александра Капуста - студентка философского факультета МГУ имени М.В.Ломоносова при поддержке Светланы Воронцовой, также студентки философского факультета МГУ имениМ.В.Ломоносова. Окончательная корректировка текста перевода выполнена редакцией AU.