from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 19:20
https://sh.itjust.works/post/40228971
Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.
Tolokonnikova was only three and a half days into what was supposed to be a “durational performance” reenacting her two years as a political prisoner in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
But Donald Trump had ordered national guard troops into Los Angeles, over the objections of California’s governor, and the protests against immigration raids that Trump wanted to target were happening just a block from the gallery where Tolokonnikova was performing.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) hastily decided to shut its doors. But Tolokonnikova, 35, whose political art has left her as a wanted criminal in Russia, chose to continue her performance inside the empty museum.
“Police State Exhibit Closed Today Due to the Police State,” she posted on Instagram.
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Posting like this instead of just using google is the mark of a true annoying person
There’s a difference between engagement and just acting like a dick. The way you worded your question was definitely in dick territory
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot
So much respect for Pussy Riot
Great band
Pussy Riot: 5 Russian Words You’ll Need to Know in Trump’s America (2017)
(Thanks to archive.org for saving this video, which was recently removed from YouTube.)