The feminist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot announced on March 6th that they’ll be going on tour this spring!
The tour will include six stops in Vancouver, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Guadalajara, and Trenčin, Slovakia.
Three of the shows will be festival performances, which includes the Belltown Bloom festival in Seattle, Washington on May 5th, where they will be headlining. (Artists such as Mannequin Pussy and Skating Polly will also be playing Belltown Bloom, so it’ll be a bit of a feminist utopia.) Other festival performances include the Corona Capital music festival in Guadalajara on May 21st and the Pohoda Festival in Trenčin on July 6th-9th.
Pussy Riot and their founder, Nadya Tolokonnikova have been keeping busy by working on some amazing projects. The group recently contributed a piece titled Fragile Masculinity Genesis to the Sotheby’s “My Body, My Business” auction. Soetheby’s is one of the world’s largest brokers of fine art. Fragile Masculinity Genesis is a scultpture designed to look like an eggplant. According to Tolokonnikova, “Lighting the wick of this sculpture gives birth to a broader Fragile Masculinity project that is set to unfold in the upcoming months and involves sculpture, performance, audi-visual work and a total installation by Pussy Riot.”
We’re so excited to keep up with this project, and we should also mention, the “My Body, My Business” auction raised over $100,000 for Planned Parenthood! Another Pussy Riot piece, Putin’s Ashes, was recently on display at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles this February, and received massive critical acclaim. Check out BUST’s coverage of the piece here!
You can grab tickets for any of Pussy Riot’s upcoming shows at Pussyriot.love. The tour is set to kickoff on April 19th in Vancouver. (We hope they play “Police State!”)
You can also keep with with Pussy Riot and Nadya’s art by following @nadyariot and @pussyriot on Instagram.
Top Photo: Pussy Riot in 2021. Игорь Мухин at Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
