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December 16, 2025 - Nadya Tolokonnikova, Stefan Jackiw, and Julia Swanson
Conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot. She joins The Culture Show to discuss “Police State” — a museum installation that recreates the conditions of her incarceration through constant surveillance and confinement. The project draws directly from her imprisonment following Pussy Riot’s 2012 protest inside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Tolokonnikova’s new book, also titled “Police State” documents the installation and reflects on power, punishment, and resistance. To learn more about her new book, “Police State,” go here…
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