Voina Update: 'We will...carry out...punk ideals into life.'

We reported on the case of the Russian art collective Voina last week [http://hyperallergic.com/15354/voina-interview/] but today Marina Galperina of Animal NY has an update and interview [http://animalnewyork.com/2010/12/voina-to-animal-real-art-is-in-the-street-or-in-prison/] with Voina's Alexei P

Natalia Sokol (aka Kozlyenok) with Kasper, son of imprisoned artist Oleg Vorotnikov (image via Voina, plucer.livejournal.com)

We reported on the case of the Russian art collective Voina last week but today Marina Galperina of Animal NY has an update and interview with Voina’s Alexei Plutser-Sarno and it doesn’t look good. “They wiretap our phones, write down every … word. For me they have already prepared a criminal article, reading ‘organizing and leading a criminal community’ — namely, the Voina art group … gallery art has died. Today you can [only] do … innovative art in the street only or in prison, on the edge between Life and Death, between Reality and Imaginary. Art calls for sacrifice,” Plutser-Sarno says.