Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot - Livestream Added!
Nadya Tolokonnikova. Photo Courtesy of Artist.
ARTIST TALK
Under the Shadow of Evil: Pussy Riot and Standing Up to Vladimir Putin and His Legacy of Ashes
Pussy Riot creator Nadya Tolokonnikova talks about the hope and despair of facing down the world's most evil dictator: from the hope of anti-Putin marches to Pussy Riot’s sham trial, fighting for feminist and LGBTQ+ rights, to Sochi, and the hopelessness in what the world witnesses with the invasion of Crimea and genocidal war in Ukraine.
The lecture is followed by a conversation between the artist and Masha Gessen, staff writer for The New Yorker.
Free and open to the public.
AS OF MARCH 2: The in-person event is SOLD OUT. Please watch the livestream at go.rutgers.edu/march9stream, which is available beginning at 5:45 p.m. on March 9.
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* The event has been relocated to Kirkpatrick Chapel, across from the Zimmerli, at 81 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Please consult Rutgers’ interactive parking map before visiting campus for parking lot locations and their distance from Kirkpatrick.
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* Seating is general admission. Chapel seating consists of communal wooden pews.
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About the Artist
Conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the founding member of Pussy Riot, a global feminist protest art movement. Today, hundreds of people identify as a part of the Pussy Riot community.
Tolokonnikova was sentenced in 2012 to 2 years' imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance. She went through a hunger strike, protesting savage prison conditions, and ended up being sent far away to a Siberian penal colony, where she managed to maintain her artistic activity and, with her prison punk band, made a tour around Siberian labor camps. She also published the book Read and Riot: Pussy Riot's Guide to Activism.
She is the co-founder of the independent news service and media outlet, Mediazona. She has spoken before the US Congress, British Parliament, European Parliament, and appeared as herself on season 3 of House of Cards. Pussy Riot's Punk-prayer was named by The Guardian among the best art pieces of the 21st century ("feminist, explicitly anti-Putin, protesting the banning of gay pride and the Orthodox church’s support of the president"). She has collaborated with Bansky on his Dismaland exhibition and been endorsed by Marina Abramovic and Ai Weiwei. She has created an immersive experience in Saatchi Gallery in London.
Pussy Riot stands for gender fluidity, inclusivity, matriarchy, love, laughter, decentralization, anarchy, and anti-authoritarianism.
Supported by the Avenir Foundation Endowment Fund with additional support from the Dodge Charitable Trust—Nancy Ruyle Dodge Trustee.