Every Woman Biennial La MaMa Galleria 47 Great Jones St. New York, NY 10012 March 2 – 24, 2024 The 2024 Every Woman Biennial, this year titled "I Will Always Love You," features 100s of women and non-binary artists. The biennial exhibition has become known as the "world’s largest female and non-binary art festival." Timed…
Tag: Nadya Tolokonnikova
Nadya Tolokonnikova, one of the founding members of the art collective Pussy Riot, is a once-in-a-generation rebel. Following an anti-Putin protest that took place in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, an action now known as Pussy Riot’s “Punk Prayer,” Nadya and several fellow protesters were infamously sentenced to prison in 2012. Little did Nadya…
Earlier this month, feminist artist Judy Chicago and founding member of Pussy Riot Nadya Tolokonnikova launched What if Women Ruled the World, a metaverse project that begins with a blockchain-enabled call-and-response. The project invites feminist allies around the world to answer questions on the website of creative agency DMINTI. The responses will be used to…
Art collective, performance artists, girl group, punk band, anarchists… Pussy Riot has been labeled many different ways over the years, although few truly grasp the full scope of what they are about and many have perhaps underestimated their brilliance. Originally a roughly dozen-member Russian feminist collective, Pussy Riot is now a fully-fledged protest movement and…
Pussy Riot stands for gender fluidity, inclusivity, matriarchy, love, laughter, decentralization, anarchy, and anti-authoritarianism. Today, hundreds of people identify as a part of the Pussy Riot community. Conceptual artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnika, founding member of Pussy Riot, was sentenced in 2012 to 2 years imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance. She went through a…
On May 14th, Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot and artist Marina Abramovic sat down for a conversation on performance and activism, moderated by Melena Ryzik of The New York Times. The discussion was hosted by the newspaper's TimesTalks series, live events featuring creative pioneers and the publication's talented columnists and writers. Last month, the TimesTalks Festival…
TimesTalks: Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova & Marina Abramovich May 14th, 2018, 7:00pm Florence Gould Hall: 55 East 59th Street, NYC Tickets HERE Following the success of the recent TimesTalks Festival, the program of live performances and conversations has announced its next event, this time hosting Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and performance artist Marina Abramovich. The two…
The 3rd edition of Day For Night, a music and arts festival and summit, takes place December 15-17 in Houston, Texas. This year’s lineup will include musicians like Nine Inch Nails, Tyler, The Creator, James Blake, Solange, Cardi B, Pussy Riot, Cashmere Cat, and so many others. Day for Night 2017 feature very diverse bunch…