Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived (www.theguardian.com)
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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[deleted] on 15 Jun 20:54 next collapse
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tane6@lemm.ee on 15 Jun 20:57 next collapse

Posting like this instead of just using google is the mark of a true annoying person

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Gerblat@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 21:16 collapse

There’s a difference between engagement and just acting like a dick. The way you worded your question was definitely in dick territory

drspod@lemmy.ml on 15 Jun 21:06 collapse
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Jun 22:53 next collapse

So much respect for Pussy Riot

pineapplelover@lemm.ee on 15 Jun 23:22 collapse

Great band

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