Minnesota artist Andrea Stanislav's "Nightmare" video of a white horse galloping on water was hobbled by technical problems in 2011 when the University of Minnesota associate professor planned to show the video as part of that summer's Northern Spark festival in the Twin Cities.

On July 25-26, 2014, however, Stanislav's magical illusion was a success in St. Petersburg, Russia under the aegis of Manifesta 10 Parallel Projects. There the full-scale white horse appeared on a video screen that was pulled on a barge along the Neva River, past the State Hermitage Museum, and through some 30 kilometer's of the city's canals.

Russian media loved the project and covered it in more than 60 print publications, 10 television stations and three radio outlets, Stanislav said. Thousands of people stayed up as late as 2 a.m. to view the horse from river embankments throughout the city.

"We were planning on performing 'Nightmare" on the Moscow River on September 19 in conjunction with the Moscow Art Fair," Stanislav said in an email. But that and another Moscow plan "is hostage to the current international situation and on hold."

Meanwhile she's working to present "Nightmare" in New York next year.