{"id":200389,"date":"2021-03-12T12:28:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/russian-protest-group-pussy-riot-sells-nfts-for-latest-single-panic-attack\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T12:28:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:28:57","slug":"russian-protest-group-pussy-riot-sells-nfts-for-latest-single-panic-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/russian-protest-group-pussy-riot-sells-nfts-for-latest-single-panic-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"# Russian protest group Pussy Riot sells NFTs for latest single ‘Panic Attack’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# Russian protest group Pussy Riot sells NFTs for latest single ‘Panic Attack’ <\/strong>”
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Russian punk feminist group Pussy Riot has released a new music video and is auctioning a series<\/a> of four, non-fungible-tokens to accompany its release and raise funds for their art projects and local activism.<\/p>\n

The group first rose to prominence in 2012 after staging a guerilla performance of an iconoclastic feminist punk song in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral in protest against the Orthodox Church’s complicity with Vladimir Putin’s regime.\u00a0Shortly after, the group’s members were arrested for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and later sentenced<\/a> to two years in a penal colony.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The music video for the group’s latest single, Panic Attack, features co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova as an avatar journeying through a dystopian virtual wasteland, culminating in her battle with an ominous\u00a0doppelg\u00e4nger. Commenting on the video,\u00a0Tolokonnikova said:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter serving 2 years in a labor camp, I’m still struggling with mental health issues. Trauma, fear and insecurity never fully go away, causing depression episodes and deep anxiety. \u2018Panic Attack\u2019 was born as the result of me staring at the wall for 24 hours in the middle of the pandemic, feeling 100% helpless.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To create the video for Panic Attack, which was produced by Chris Greatti, the augmented reality artist Asad J. Malik created a photorealistic hologram avatar of Tolokonnikova using footage of her captured by 106 cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following the video’s release, the single is being auctioned as a series of four non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, for collectors to purchase via the platform Foundation. Held this Saturday, March 13, proceeds from the auction will go towards financing Pussy Riot’s future projects, as well as to raise funds for a shelter for victims\u00a0of domestic violence in Russia.<\/p>\n

Tolkonnikova’s extended commentary on the single offers further clues as to why the simulated reality \u2014 which begins as a saccharine dreamworld and degenerates into something altogether apocalyptic \u2014 was felt to be particularly apt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The video, in her words, \u201creflects on the objectification of human beings, loneliness, disconnection from the environment that causes us to feel small and powerless. And it’s us who caused it with our own hands \u2014 that’s why at the end of the video I’m fighting with my own clone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Masha Alekhina <\/a>and Lucy Shtein<\/a>, Tolkonnikova’s fellow Pussy Riot members, now face two years in jail for showing public support for opposition figure Alexei Navalny during the recent\u00a0wave of protests<\/a>\u00a0that followed his attempted assassination for\u00a0anti-corruption activism<\/a>.<\/p>\n