Genesis P-Orridge Kolkhoz
Whither Waters Run, 2014
performance in the public space (“action”, Ukrainian “акція”)
materials: 450 paper ships, made from electoral agitation
Куди вода / Whither Waters Run from Ievgenii Kazak on Vimeo.
The sence of action is the rafting down the Dnipro river of 450 paper ships – one for each peoples deputy, member of Ukrainian parliament. The ships were made from the agitation materials, distributed in Kyiv. Holded on November 2, the week after the elections, action signified the temporal nature of political programs. Created only for the election, they always go away after the election.
Place and time of the action (early in the cold morning far away from city center) disposed the participation of broad masses, preventing activistic and mass-media effects, so political message was addressed directly to certain audience and random witnesses.
‘Whither Waters Run’ – is a part of traditional ritual phrase, preventing the negative effects of nightmare. Here this is only the statement of the direction of political programs after the elections.
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