August 18, at the morning most rush-hours Ukrainian artist Alina Kopycja traveled by different urban transport in Kyiv. She was in long old-fashioned dress with huge crinoline. That dress guaranteed one meter of personal space to her – something impossible otherwise in transport jam. Action was connected with issues of private space, respect to individual personality and especially to woman's personality. Each is dangerously threaten in contemporary Ukraine. During the uncontrolled economical and social changes country becomes 'consumption paradise' with enormous differentiation between rich and poor. Woman's body (as in traditional patriarchal society) becomes commodity, the only tool for life success for women. Engaged in survival activities ordinary people don't have time to analyze situation and all the more to demand changes. Girl in strange dress was one minute extraordinary flash in usual surroundings that provoked feelings of discomfort and irregularity – strange and unclear feelings, unconscious displeasure rather than clear understanding of what is going wrong.More photos and video: http://eidosfund.org/personal_space/
