Museum "Revolution"

A revolution changes the social and political "landscapes" of a country, but foremost it changes the physical landscape. For centuries none of the city centers of the world capitals looked like Maidan in the last few months, resembling a medieval town and a futuristic fantasy at the same time. A revolution changes the functions of things, moves them from their places, mixes up the concepts. A light bulb becomes a vessel for a Molotov cocktail, car tires become building material for barricades, a shovel and a road sign become shields, and genres of contemporary art – installation, performance, happening – rule Maidan. Most of the artistic gestures shown in film are elementary, utilitarian, naïve: we observe art that in many cases hasn't yet divided itself from the crafts, as if aesthetics is born before our very eyes. The New Middle Ages is what artists themselves call the art that originated at Maidan.