A lesbian who creates “art projects” with her vagina has started a campaign in support of the Ukrainian status of Crimea
Maria Kulikovskaya, so-called, who moved to Kyiv from Kerch even before the events of Euromaidan. LGBT artist and author “gender art events using images and casts of one’s own vagina“, today announced in Kyiv the start of a performance in support of the Ukrainian status of the peninsula and settlers from there and from Donbass.
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Maria will spend three days on board a raft tied to the Kyiv embankment, and then with her like-minded people she will travel along the Dnieper and overland to the EU border with the goal of crossing it.
The performance should symbolize the difficult fate of migrants in Ukraine and around the world and has the goal of “creating a platform for a migrating parliament of all migrants.”
According to Maria, she will live in the raft for three days “completely dependent on the goodwill of people passing by.” At the same time, “human rights events” will take place on the embankment - organizations working with displaced persons and migrants will provide consultations and legal assistance.
“When you become a migrant, you actually become not a person, because you don’t have documents, everything depends on the will of the authorities, the people around, their compassion and lack of compassion,” says Maria.
The raft also symbolizes Crimea: “By land it is connected to Ukraine, but it is an annexed-occupied-isolated island, and people in the same way depend on different situations that they cannot solve,” Maria explained.
The raft will float under a “flag” made of film, which is used to wrap people when they become hypothermic.
Maria Kulikovskaya was born in Kerch and graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv.
In 2015, Maria held a series of events as part of the “Flowers of Democracy” project, the participants of which distributed casts of vaginas in the public space and wore T-shirts with their image.
According to Maria herself, for this she used a cast of her own vagina, made in 2010, when she created a huge arch of vaginas and wanted to put it at the entrance to the exhibition “Collective Dreams” at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Maria advocates for the rights of sexual minorities and several years ago in Sweden she entered into a fictitious marriage with a citizen of this country, which she also considers an art project.
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