From Kuryokhin to Pussy Riot

The ARTPLAY Design Center opened the exhibition “Silence is Death”, dedicated to protest in music and art. The organizers of the exhibition created an explosive mixture of art, music and politics.

The entrance to the exhibition was cordoned off with red barriers, which are usually used by law enforcement agencies at protests, and the well-known message was heard from a megaphone: “Disperse, your protest is illegal.” It turned out that this was not the find of the organizers, but an art object prepared by activist Matvey Krylov, famous in the case of the “ wet prosecutor ”. The recording of the riot police's voices was then heard from a megaphone throughout the evening. The police were not personally present at the exhibition, but they were abundantly represented in the videos that were broadcast in the main hall: demonstrations of anarchists, National Bolsheviks, “Strategy-31” actions, etc.

At the stands dedicated to "Civil Defense" by Yegor Letov, "Popular Mechanics" by Sergei Kuryokhin, at a retro stand with album covers of rock heroes of the 80s and 90s, visitors could listen and watch not only concerts of those years, but also the mega-release of the last month - " White Album ."

The darkest room was allocated by the organizers for the group Pussy Riot . It broadcast clips of the group, presented masks and dresses of the participants, and drawings by Victoria Lomasko from court hearings.

There was such a noise in the hall that many people froze as soon as they entered the exhibition area. A naked man in a Pussy Riot signature mask ran around the hall and shouted: “Because it’s an article!” Vodka and juice, which was offered to everyone free of charge in the lobby, helped visitors recover from the shock.

In front of the entrance to the loft, a concert of the White Album participants was organized.

By evening, the leader of the group "Cockroaches!" Dmitry Spirin, Vasily Shumov from the Center group and German Vinogradov from Grapes of Vinogradov.

The exhibition, organized by the FAT project , can be visited until July 1.