Update: According to ArtInfo, earlier this week Banksy bailed out two members of the Russian anarchist art collective Voina, jailed last year for “Palace Revolution,” a performance in which members overturned cop cars in protest of abusive authority.
Voina come back for kisses
by Tom Washington
The Moscow News
March 1, 2011
Police are reluctant to pucker up and play along with the latest provocative prank from art collective Voina (War).
To mark the first day of spring and the implementation of Russia”™s new police law women in the group have been attempt[ing] to plant smacking kisses on female officers in Moscow metro stations.
The stunt, called “Kiss debris”, did not go down well with many officers, as images on a Voina member”™s livejournal page attest.
Love for the law
The group, notorious for its antics in provoking the authorities, has promoted the latest campaign with slogans such as “˜Get out on the street and grab a police officer!”™ “˜My sexual orientation is a police officer of my sex!”™ And “˜A gay policeman and a lesbian policewoman are Medvedev”™s avant-garde modernisation!”™
Feisty females
The group”™s twitter account suggests the kissing spree has been going on for two months and that several hundred officers have been targeted. Continue reading “Russian Art Collective Voina’s “Kiss Debris””