In 2008, Sergey Korsakov created a new country out of cardboard as a community for artists. ‘Cardboardia’ now has permanent embassies in Russia and the UK and regularly hosts creative events in community festivals around the world. Daria Stenina explores attempts to build a society powered by art, not money, oil or political issues.
Ten years ago Sergey Korsakov and his fiancée Viktoria didn’t want to have an ordinary wedding and decided to build a cardboard wedding palace during the Afisha Picnic Festival in Moscow where couples could make public acts of marriage. Sergey remembers: All of the guests liked this ceremony so much that I had the thought of building a second, bigger and longer existing cardboard town... Keep reading on Voluntary Arts