![]() “Someone’s putting on a show, as if, God forbid the New York Times doesn’t write about it.” “The state is doing everything to heat up attention for the case,” Verzilov said. We talked about Derrida and post-modernism, the construction of gender and about performance art, but also about international press coverage of the Pussy Riot case and the growing list of Western musicians-Franz Ferdinand, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sting-who had spoken up for the young women. Last week, on the day before the trial began, Petr Verzilov, Tolokonnikova’s husband, and I met for coffee. According to their indictment, their trial promised to be a decisive moment in the history of Christianity officially, they were being tried for hooliganism, but the mumbling prosecutor clarified that they stood accused of “insulting the entire Christian world.” Three days later, a warrant was issued for the girls’ arrest. ![]() The video went viral: it was two weeks before the presidential election and Putin, facing a wave of unprecedented protests, was feeling shaky. (“The head of the KGB is their patron saint,” they sang, by turns shrieking and imitating a church choir.) By evening, the three young women had turned it into a music video called “Punk Prayer: Holy Mother, Chase Putin Away!” which mocked the patriarch and Putin. On the morning of February 21, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Ekaterina Samutsevich walked up the steps leading to the altar of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, shed their winter clothing, pulled colorful winter hats down over their faces, and jumped around punching and kicking for about thirty seconds. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |