Marina Lyapina

The characters in the film live in the real world, but their imagination, which recreates their fears and doubts, exists alongside it, sometimes crossing the line.

Industrial space is conceptually filled; it generates and influences the character and content of the image.

The typical living blocks – Troyeshchyna in Kyiv. The neighborhood’s biggest pulsing arteries, Tsvetayeva and Mayakovsky Streets, were constructed almost simultaneously several years before the Soviet Union collapse. The combination of archival footage and today’s shootings brings up the almost 100 years of history – from right after the revolution, in 1918, when Mayakovsky starts to make films, until the modern day. Or in the intersection on the two streets there is a story of the masses whose poet Mayakovsky was; the masses who ousted Tsvetayeva from their concrete towers. In any case, it a magic of the closest things that the pedestrians wouldn’t pay attention to.

The performance is dedicated to the anniversary of the tragic events that took place in February 2014 at the Institutskaja street (Kiev, Ukraine), during which in a few days more than fifty people were killed. The clashes occured between protesters against the government and representatives of law enforcement agencies.

The characters in the film live in the real world, but their imagination, which recreates their fears and doubts, exists alongside it, sometimes crossing the line.

Industrial space is conceptually filled; it generates and influences the character and content of the image.

Industrial space is conceptually filled; it generates and influences the character and content of the image.

The typical living blocks – Troyeshchyna in Kyiv. The neighborhood’s biggest pulsing arteries, Tsvetayeva and Mayakovsky Streets, were constructed almost simultaneously several years before the Soviet Union collapse. The combination of archival footage and today’s shootings brings up the almost 100 years of history – from right after the revolution, in 1918, when Mayakovsky starts to make films, until the modern day. Or in the intersection on the two streets there is a story of the masses whose poet Mayakovsky was; the masses who ousted Tsvetayeva from their concrete towers. In any case, it a magic of the closest things that the pedestrians wouldn’t pay attention to.

The typical living blocks – Troyeshchyna in Kyiv. The neighborhood’s biggest pulsing arteries, Tsvetayeva and Mayakovsky Streets, were constructed almost simultaneously several years before the Soviet Union collapse. The combination of archival footage and today’s shootings brings up the almost 100 years of history – from right after the revolution, in 1918, when Mayakovsky starts to make films, until the modern day. Or in the intersection on the two streets there is a story of the masses whose poet Mayakovsky was; the masses who ousted Tsvetayeva from their concrete towers. In any case, it a magic of the closest things that the pedestrians wouldn’t pay attention to.

The performance is dedicated to the anniversary of the tragic events that took place in February 2014 at the Institutskaja street (Kiev, Ukraine), during which in a few days more than fifty people were killed. The clashes occured between protesters against the government and representatives of law enforcement agencies.