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This conceptual project involved several possible scenarios of development of
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was announced not as an art project but as a real event. Each spectator had to become a participant and choose the role of either the victim or the pogrom-maker. “Victims” were numbered and bonded to comply with the rules on the “pogrom territory” (not to leave the room, not to consume alcohol,
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as a supermarket product – the symbols of the beginning and the end of the 50-year-long post-war history. The project deconstructed the image of “winners and losers” in World War II. In 1995, Germany was an economically and politically powerful state, while the
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etc.), and “pogrom makers” received a shot of vodka at the entrance. Most participants chose the roles of victims. The actual pogrom did not happen. The Masoch Fund organized an auction, and the “pogrom makers” became “schindlers” (the myth of
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was a provocation that implied historical parallels and political speculations. The work represented a search for the national recipe of mummification (lard and pork rinds are
Ukrainian "totemic accessories").
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The ideological principle of the Masoch Fund is "Aesthetics contra Ethics". Podolchak and
Dyurych are called the masters of perfectly elaborated provocations. The Masoch Fund reveals and criticizes the
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The Masoch Fund focuses on the social, political and economic context of the
Ukrainian society. Unlike other action artists whose work often refers to personal experience (
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project brings up the problem of existence of a work of art outside the cultural context and, to some extent, calls out to revise the evaluation criteria for art.
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during his meeting with
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of the state, disbanding the governmental bodies, and disintegrating cities into villages. It was proposed to hold a
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placed in lard. When the hot plate was on, lard in the jar melted, becoming transparent and revealing the preserved (
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and define the principal direction of the country's development by choosing one of the Masoch Fund's projects.
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