In Kyiv near the monument to Lenin was an unusual performance. Video

The event took place under the patronage of Manuel Pelusa.

Around empty monument to Lenin on the Boulevard Shevchenko gathered more than twenty people of Kiev. They joined the Romanian performance artist Manuel Pelusa.

Kiev was a performative action rumynskogo artist Emanuel Pelusa. For the performance, he invited the ordinary people who responded to the invitation to participate. The idea is that the monument for Kiev should be created by people who live here. To all the freedom they had and they were able to do what you think is right.

To continue public debate about decommunization and rethinking the legacy of the Soviet era came about twenty of Kiev. This is the fourth such rally near the monument.

“The performance aims to maximize the people to think whether it is some kind of monument, maybe you need to leave the empty pedestal. We tried to these questions not to find answers, but rather more to problematize, to people it provoked some thoughts and reaction,” says Catherine Filuk, curator of the project “Public agreement”.

3 August 2009 resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the monument was removed from the register, along with the other monuments to persons involved in the organization of mass starvation and political repression. Thus, he lost the status of a monument and were not subject to protection by the state. 8 December 2013 during the Euromaidan in Central Kiev, the monument was toppled from its pedestal and destroyed by the participants of street protests.

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