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LENIN IS MINE
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LENIN IS MINE
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The artistic project "Lenin is mine" researches social and political consequences of the fall of communism and the appearance of capitalism in eastern Europe. The new artistic creation of a world renowned performer Semolina Tomic who has been living and working in Barcelona for two decades. She has started this project in her private theatre called L'antic teatre, which received many awards for its works. It is supported by the spanish Ministry of Culture. The project consist of workshops which will be organised in eastern and southern european countries like Poland, Russia and Ukraine. “Our intention is not a political or moral one as far as aesthetics go; in its etymological sense, the depth of the surface, the facade of a statue, whose face represents and transcends a historical period, which his very important to humanity. To put into crisis the preconceived concepts, the ideological language itself, giving force to the vital human energy. With its pain and hopes, dreams and disasters, we can't deny the will of people's life's, the creativity in proposing new world visions and the fact that political forces take advantage of these feelings. Lenin, just like any other historical figure, embodies humanity's contradictions, confusions and doubts. Lenin is an interface of passed, present and future times, he is a ''medium'' where we can analyse and reinterpret the world through a a poetical and romantic vision playing all the multiple sides of life. In
''Lenin is Mine'' I want to use all these contradictions. Work
with Lenin's emblematic figure making it mine in my own way. |
