#pussy riot
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevitch would just be another three punk rockers playing to small crowds if it weren’t for a little thing called Free Speech. These three members of a Russian protest band called Pussy Riot have become international symbols in the fight against repression. Just sentenced to two years in a labor camp for criticizing the government, these women have never given up on their beliefs. And they have done it all with their own unique style. For taking the Push Girl revolution to Red Square, for speaking up where others remain silent, and for making the balaclava the must-have fashion accessory of the season … we proudly join you with our fists in the air.
Tell your friend they’ve got a little Pussy Riot in them. Reblog now to give them a little push.
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Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin - Spirit is a Bone
2015, MACK, first edition (signed). Book came wrapped in tissue paper.
The portraits in this book were produced using advanced facial recognition technology that’s being used in most cities around the world, developed by engineers in Moscow from existing systems built to recognize car plates. These so called ‘non-collaborative portraits’ are more three dimensional data maps than photographs, where no human contact is registered: there’s a total negation of humanity, they’re essentially some sort of digital death masks. Broomberg & Chanarin have constructed their own taxonomy of portraits in contemporary Russia, including Pussy Riot members and other Moscow citizens.
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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova talks Putin, puking, and war in Ukraine.
Goof morning sunshine! We had another video planned for today but the latest Pussy Riot trumps all. Thoughts?
[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A BABY RUSSIAN TORTOISE NO BIGGER THAN A THUMB WALKS ALONG A WOOD RAILING. TEXT READS IN LARGE FONT, “FREE PUSSY RIOT!”]
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One of the most powerful sections in the book
“Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.” -Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
We’ll take you on a journey from the cathedral altar deep into the vaults of the Kremlin itself. Hopefully, this is a journey that you’ll only have to make once in your life.
In 2012, members of the Russian punk collective Pussy Riot were sentenced to prison for staging a protest performance inside a Moscow cathedral. As of this week, you can support their project to share their experience in a visceral, immersive work of political theater.
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