Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova And Marina Abramovic to Appear at TimesTalks

TimesTalks, The New York Times live conversation and performance series, is proud to host a conversation between Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and performance artist Marina Abramovic, moderated by New York Times contributor Melena Ryzik on May 14. The artists will discuss the political aims of performance, the intersection of activism and feminism, and the role of the artist in modern society.

Since 2011, Pussy Riot has been creating agitprop art pieces, resisting censorship, mass surveillance and torture in prisons and police departments. For the last five years, Pussy Riot has been working on providing non-fake news and analytics to Russians through the online multimedia platform Mediazona.

Over the past five decades, Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, creating some of the movement's most important early works. She now supports her legacy through the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), a platform for immaterial and long durational work.

This event will take place on May 14 at Florence Gould Hall, and be live streamed on TimesTalks.com and TimesTalks YouTube channel, starting at 7:00PM EST. Select media passes are available. If interested, please contact Ali Rigo (ali@culturalcounsel.com) to discuss coverage opportunities.

TimesTalks, now celebrating its 20th year, is known for providing a platform for engaging and spirited discourse between the most iconic and culturally relevant creative voices of our time.

This May 18, The New York Times will host the TimesTalks Art & Design Festival, featuring talks with David Adjaye and Thelma Golden, artist Christo, and David Rockwell and Isabel Toledo.

More information about TimesTalks can be found here. Previous installments can be viewed on Youtube, including videos of Denzel Washington, Grace Jones, Margaret Atwood, Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan, Jane Goodall, Annie Leibovitz, Ai Weiwei, Anthony Bourdain, Danny Bowien, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Judi Dench, "Moonlight": A Night of Music and Conversation, Tom Ford, Jim Jarmusch, Iggy Pop, Meryl Streep, and many more.

About TimesTalks
TimesTalks, The New York Times live conversation and performance series, pairs New York Times journalists with the most creative and seminal figures in the fields of film and theater, art, music, literature, innovation and fashion. In 2018, TimesTalks celebrates its 20th anniversary. For the past two decades, TimesTalks has provided a platform for engaging and spirited discourse among the most iconic and culturally relevant creative voices of our time, paying particular attention to those using the cultural arts as a lens for change.