Post Meta Neo Mythology

Ho-ho-ho! New Year is here and Post Meta Neo Mythology is full speed on!

I am collecting your favourite fairy tales and dreams, fantasies and stories! So, if you have a story for me - write me pm or comment under the post.

Myth has a power to shape our reality, empower and change point of view!
By telling fairytales and magic stories we can amplify important social issues and plant seed of change. ✨

Post Meta Neo Mythology includes three parts: Folklore and Mythology collection (Skype recordings of people who share their story's with me) Dreams and Fairy Tales that's still operating in society ( Digital performances with filters and digital masks) and Future Mythology (myth and fairy tales to come, based on futuristic prognoses and my artistic view).
I am happy that my project was supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst back in May this year!
In June We Are Public supported my art practice, and this project in particular.

Another good news is that first part of the project - Folklore and Mythology collection was supported by Wilhelmina Jansen Fund! Specifically for Russian folklore collection! So I am looking forward to record grandmother and grandfathers from my motherland, sharing their favorite folk tales!

Second part of my project - Digital performances you were able to see this summer. After a break, I am starting to perform again! So stay tuned for your favorite digital performances using Instagram masks. AND! My project was supported by BankGiro Loterij Fonds so very soon I will start flash mob - so you also can share your favorite fairy tale using digital masks! I am working on video instruction right now, more information will follow!

Third part of the project is kind of "sleeping beauty", because I am in my research phase, collecting futuristic prognoses and reading different theories!

All parts of the project will come together on Post Meta Neo Mythology Digital Archive upcoming March! So it will be super fun and magic! Join me for the ride)

Future is FEMALE.

”Fairy tales prescribe restrictive social roles for women and perpetuate ‘alluring fantasies’ of punishment and reward: passivity, beauty, and helplessness lead to marriage, conferring wealth and status, whereas self-aware, ‘aggressive’, and powerful women experience social censure and are either ostracized or killed.” - wrote Karen Rowe.

Although many readers discount obvious fantasy elements, they may still fall prey to more subtle paradigms through identification with the heroine. Thus, subconsciously women may transfer from fairy tales into real life cultural norms which exalt passivity, dependency, and self‐sacrifice as a female's cardinal virtues. In short, fairy tales perpetuate the patriarchal status quo by making female subordination seem a romantically desirable, indeed an inescapable fate.

In feminists points of view, fairy tales are another chance to create woman’s voice and to develop self-expression.

We can create a new mythology and new fairy tales, it’s all in our hands.