POLICE STATE / Durational performance and installation at MOCA Los Angeles / Nadya Tolokonnikova скачать в хорошем качестве

POLICE STATE / Durational performance and installation at MOCA Los Angeles / Nadya Tolokonnikova

POLICE STATE: June 2025, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Nadya: I’ve been spending all the working hours of the museum in the cell, which was designed to reflect a prison cell in Russia. I also stuffed it with music equipment to produce live soundscape for the installation - using soundbites I sourced from the actual Russian prisons. When the protests broke out right outside MOCA, John and I set up an audio live feed of the protests (live) that I mixed in with some lullabies and prayers from my childhood - all eerie, ghostly, chilling. I also had an old sewing machine in the cell to sew police uniforms - exactly as I was doing in my penal colony, but this time with a twist, I was sewing on teddy bears to the uniform and slogans like “I wasn’t invited so i broke the door”, “ghost”, “alien”, “exiled”, “revoked”. I had a live feed from the police scanner also which was adding LAPD conversations to my soundscape, it felt very surreal since as you can imagine LAPD was busy shooting rubber bullets at the protestors at that time. On the walls of the cell you can see artworks created by current and former political prisoners from Russia and Belarus, including Oleg Navalny, brother of Alexey, and Sasha Skochilenko, a gay woman locked up for her protest against the war in Ukraine for 7 years - but a twist of the plot is that last year we (we as a civil society) managed to free her in a prisoners exchange. List of the prisoners from Russia and Belarus participated: Anya Arkhipova Yegor Balazeykin Anya Bazhutova Andrey Boyarshinov Sergey Brukhanov Ilya Chabovsky (Belarus)* Aleksandr Dotsenko Asya Dudyaeva Polina Evtushenko Sergey Kabanov Artem Kamardin Yan Katelevskiy Daniil Kluka Pavel Korshunov Pavel Krisevich* Zhenya Makarenko Network Case: Ilya Shakursky, Dima Pchelintsev; Angel Nikolaev Oleg Orlov* Ludmila Razumova Sasha Skochilenko* Tumen Case: Daniil Chertykov, Nikita Oleynik, Yury Neznamov, Denis Aidyn Xadad* *Ex-political prisoners Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot), POLICE STATE, 2025. Performance documentation. Video by Jeremy Eichenbaum courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).