Amnesty/State Department co-production, I can really
lay into this media scam.
What's with the ski masks that the broads are wearing?
They remind of Mush Mouth from the Cosby show.
Except they speak Russian.
Kak-by diela-by?
Minia-by zavoot-by Puss-by Riot-by
At 3:25 Bab-by
Sea-by turtles-by
The Riots of the Pussy:
Performance-by art-by for Hillar-by
"Don't laugh. It demeans what we're doing here"
These Riot Grrrrls were once part of Voina, a performance art
group that used sex to protest the Putin-Medviedev tag team of
politics. I mean sexual acts. That, my friends, is going all the way
for their art, and their politics.
And, when you see their faces, you'll understand why the Pussies
insist on wearing ski masks.
chuckle away:
Mark Ames: "stripped completely
naked, and started having a real no-bullshit XXX orgy underneath a banner that read: “Fuck For The
Successor Medvedev”.
Artnet.com sale of photos from the event:
Voina,
A Fuck for the Teddy-Bear Heir, 2008,
Biological Museum, Moscow.
THE DICK OF THE MATTER
by Matthew Bown
It took members of Voina (pronounced va-ee-NA)
23 seconds to draw a very large, erect penis on the Liteiny Bridge in St
Petersburg.
Exiled
online
eXile
Classic / Recovered History / Russia Babylon / August 22, 2012
How Pussy
Riot Troupe “Voina” Got The eXile Censored in 2008: The Lost Story
By Mark
Ames
This story
was first published in the defunct Radar magazine on March 7, 2008
How
“liberal” is newly-anointed Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev, the one so
many people are saying represents a possible thaw in post-Putinpolitics? My
Moscow newspaper just found out the hard way—one of Russia’s leading printing
presses censored us yesterday over a page-six photo essay that we’d headlined
“Fucking For Medvedev.”
It is the
first time in the 11-year history of The exile, that our newspaper has ever
been censored. What’s odd about it for us is that the “Fucking For Medvedev”
spread, while not exactly family-friendly, is hardly the most shocking thing
we’ve ever printed; we’ve run a cover depicting a nearly-nude Putin fucking
Bill Clinton from behind, another cover depicting Putin as a midget in the
Hitlerjugen getting his head patted by a pleased Fuhrer, and a cover demanding
that President Yeltsin “Die Already!” during one of his many illnesses.
The
offending article/photo essay in the current issue covered a hardcore
anti-Medvedev orgy by a performance art troupe named “Voina” (or “War”).
[Slightly
less censored versions of the photos in question after the jump—they're still
plenty NSFW!]
Last
Friday, the troupe slipped into Moscow’s Biology Museum, stripped off their
clothes, and started to fuck—like, really, genuinely fuck—on the museum floor,
under a banner reading “Fuck For The Successor Medvedev.” Their “art
performance” lasted about 10 minutes before museum security pounced.
It didn’t
take long for the troupe to exploit their performance, posting photos on the Russian-heavy
Live Journal blogosphere and mass-mailing the media. But only a few outlets
picked up the story—perhaps it had something to do with all the extreme
hardcore photos of a fully-pregnant woman getting nailed from behind by a pasty
little bohemian, whom we see in the first few photos desperately trying to wank
himself to life for the performance.
We were the
first to print the story in all of its skanky, gory detail—or rather, would
have been the first, until our printing company, formerly Pravda’s printing
house, halted the presses because, they alleged, the spread “offended the honor
of the president”—currently a crime punishable by jail in Russia—and that it
was “pornographic,” which is also legally gray and restricted. They were so
incensed that they threatened to destroy our files—until we reminded them that
doing so would itself be a crime.
With just
over an hour to change the page and get it approved, we took the files back to
our office and redid page six as one giant black page, with a small white box
in the middle that read: “In Loving Memory of the Vladimir Putin Era
2000-2008.”
When we
delivered the new proofs to the printers, they scoured our new blackened page,
nervously suspicious that we’d planted some kind of evil American hidden-meaning-bomb
into that obviously ironic little eulogy.
Screenshot
of The eXiled’s first and only censored spread
There’s a
lot of anxiety and timidity these days in Russia, the sort that sweeps over the
country with every change of power, and these guys didn’t want to be the first
ones loaded onto cattle wagons and sent off to the Kolyma gold mines. Finally,
confident that we’d only delivered a single layer of irony, they printed up the
edition, and it was distributed without incident.....
· Letters
5. Captain History
| August 27th, 2012 at 6:57 am
Pussy Riot was banished from Voina for professionalism. They took Western
money and management; that’s a no-no.
