Let it burn! 'Fourth Wall' object goes up in flames at Maslenitsa celebrations

The 'Fourth Wall' installation, a 19-metre-high cube made from recycled materials, was set on fire in Nikola-Lenivets art park in the Kaluga Region on Saturday, in a new twist on the annual Maslenitsa (Shrovetide) celebrations.

Sun (creativity, potential) trine & Venus (art installation) quincunx Rhadamanthus (release ceremony to cut cords with a judgmental past). Mercury (writing (anonymous messages from park visitors)) sextile Huya (capitulation and clearing ceremonies (write down what prevents them moving forward with their lives)). 

Footage shows festival participants wearing costumes and dancing around the huge objects as it was set alight.

The Nikola-Lenivets Art Park press service reported that the project demonstrates 'the invisible boundary between fiction and reality'. A capsule with anonymous messages from park visitors was sewn into one of the walls of the cube, with participants asked to write down what prevents them moving forward with their lives.

The organisers estimated that around 3,500 people attended this year's event.

Maslenitsa is an Eastern Slavic holiday dating back to the pre-Christian period. Traditionally, at the end of the festivities, a scarecrow is burned, marking the arrival of spring and warmer days. 

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Source: ruptly.tv/