Project
Video, performance, photography
War, Myth, Death
Multimedia project "Murderous mythologem" was created with the help of the COUNTERmyph grant, provided by the Center of Cultural Development "Totem" with the support of the House of Europe.
The project has been started. Completion of the project will be possible after the end of the war.
An imitation myth about brotherly nations, which became a manipulative tool of russian propaganda and was ultimately destroyed by russia itself. The contradictory nature of the fiction could not unite different mentalities, and aggression followed.
A Soviet manual meat grinder that grinds free Ukrainian land. For what? There is no logic and rational justification in this, it is a senseless action. However, no matter how much they touch our identity, culture and blood - our soil - it will remain Ukrainian.
Additional description for the video
The Ukrainian land covering the horizon of the frame is going through destruction and torture. A rusty meat grinder that savegely grinds this land. Hands performing a criminal act. Meaningless grinding of the soil that falls back down to the place it was taken from.
The trembling of the hands, the ground, the frame capture the complexity of the process, because this merciless action is a metaphor for severe crimes against the Ukrainian people. Not only the land is being ground. The human spines, the blood and flesh of our people are being scrolled through the old Soviet meat grinder by the hands of the enemy with the mask of a brother.
Murderous mythologem, 2022
performance, photography
Additional description for the performance
The artist, moving through the territory, holds an old Soviet meat grinder in her hands, scrolls through it. This act is a broadcast of the enemy and the act of his encroachment on our land. The performance takes place outdoors. Ukrainian landscape without signs of human activity, without roads, houses, etc., because the enemy does not need us and our talents, intelligence or strength, our architecture, roads, cities and villages, he destroys it, he is only interested in land, territory.
"I chose the extreme points of Ukraine as locations for the performance, as these points define the length of the country's territory from north to south and from east to west. Together, these 4 locations symbolize the whole of Ukraine, because they contain the wealth of the land of all regions. So far, the performance has been implemented in the westernmost point near the village of Solomonovo in the Uzhgorod district of the Zakarpattia region.
After the end of the war, the performance is expected to be held in other extreme points of the state, namely in Chernihiv, Luhansk regions and Crimea. »
The performance is documented through photographs.
Murderous mythologem, 2022
photography