Described by The Guardian as the Stalinist Truman explain,an artist paid 400 people to live in a fictional Stalin-era research institute for three years as share of an art project.Artist Ilya Khrzhanovsky created a facility in eastern Ukraine that modeled facilities that once existed in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s. The experiment, which took place from 2008 to 2011, and has also been made into a movie that will premiere at an art installation in Berlin this October.
The facility housed 400 people who relived 30 years of the Stalin-era in three. The participants wore the same attire,ate the same food, and adhered to the same rules and customs that existed during the time period. There were also 14 children conceived during the three years.
Khrzhanovsky was inspired by Soviet physicist Lev Landau’s sage when creating the facility and named the project DAU after Landau’s nickname.
Executive producer Martine d’Anglejan-Chatillon spoke about the project, or writes The Guardian.
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Source: inquisitr.com