MASK

performance "Mask". Winter Land Art Festival MITHOGENESIS. Ukraine, Vinnytsia Oblast, Nemyriv settlement.

This project was not a rough material prepared at home. When traveling to Nemyriv, we took along a magical artifact without having the faintest idea of how it works. The very fact that the mask traveled with us had a certain intrigue by itself.
We were not familiar with Bob Basset personally, so we agreed to rent it from our friends. Considering that we were carrying in our case the very thing or the means for creating a performance, we actually brought some magic to the ancient settlement. Unexpectedly, the influence this magic had on the team went beyond the script, generating a few more projects.

Team

Prokhorenko Rodion

Huridova Hanna

Rusakova Alina

Taradina Hanna

Mienzhulina Olena

Koshelieva Svitlana

Chmuzh Dina

Krichkovska Liza

Nahorna Violetta

Beziazychna Kseniia

Olena Ilnytska

Tutor

Sergiy Ilchenko

Tutor

Shifting location as a special form of existence. Mask is the accumulation of energy in one point, in one moment, at one time.

Life as a continuous, meaningless movement of energy from the point “A” to the point “B”. It does not make sense, but has a certain rhythm – it’s the pulsation of the present. There is no way to escape from the craziness and the all-embracing nature of this ascetic dance.

In any case, you’re in the game. By accepting the rules of this game you refuse from your own self. The mask of everyday life absorbs you.

The mask of our modern times. It changes the personality, the present, getting rid of one’s own “self”, taking away the uniqueness, reducing everything to a common denominator. The mask frightens by its wit and expressiveness. Due to its inhuman nature and certain cruelty, it emphasizes the transcendence of reality. It resembles an established mechanism that interferes with your life, and submits you to a certain system, makes you stay in the general rhythm, otherwise – you are not in the game.

Dina Chmuzh

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