By EDAN CORKILL

Activist art: For “Voina Wanted (in Fukushima)” Chim↑Pom and local artists help Alex Plutser-Sarno display the “Voina” banner at a dump site for radioactive tsunami debris in Fukushima

The photo shows an unshaven Russian glaring into the distance from behind prison bars. It’s a striking shot, so it is hardly surprising that when it was printed on a 4×6-meter banner and unfurled at an entrance to the 20-km exclusion zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the police officers on duty were somewhat perplexed.

“They came out and asked us what we were doing,” explained Alex Plutser-Sarno, a member of the infamous Russian art group Voina, which has been holding similar “actions” around the world for the last few months.

Making statements: Alex Plutser-Sarno of Voina with Toshinori Mizuno, Motomu Inaoka, Masataka Okada, Yasutaka Hayashi and Ryuta Ushiro of Chim↑Pom talk about activist art at the Watari-um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art. EDAN CORKILL

The man in the so-called “Voina Wanted” photo is the group’s leader, Oleg Vorotnikov, who was arrested in Russia in late 2010 after one of the group’s more provocative artistic forays — the overturning of an empty police car. Vorotnikov was eventually released on bail after British graffiti artist Banksy donated $20,000 to the group, but he remains on international wanted lists — and hence the “Voina Wanted” actions that have been held throughout Europe, the United States and now Japan.

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Voina Wanted banner hung on the right side of the Limmat River in Limmatquai.

Lindenhof in the old town of Zürich, the historical site of the Carolingian Kaiserpfalz, situated on the left side of the Limmat River.

Voina Wanted banner hung on the Muenster Bridge. In the background there is St. Peter’s church, one of the four main churches of the old town of Zurich, besides Grossmünster, Fraumünster and Predigerkirche.

The action was supported by Voina Group activists Adrian Notz, Phillipp Meier & Nadja Putzi (DADA’s Cabaret Voltaire), Leopold Helbich. Photo - Yana Sarna. Initiator and author of the action - Alexei Plutser-Sarno, Voina Group media-artist. Portrait of Oleg Vorotnikov in the courtroom - Vladimir Telegin, Voina Group activist. «Voina Wanted» – worldwide solidarity action by the Voina Group for the persecuted artists and group members Oleg Vorotnikov and Natalia Sokol, who were put on the international wanted list by Russian police.

Source: http://plucer.livejournal.com/548607.html

There is the Empire state building in the background

Photo - Brad Downey, Voina Group activist, with the help of Ed Zipco and Quenell Jones. Initiator & author of the action - Alexei Plutser-Sarno, Voina Group media-artist. Portrait of Oleg Vorotnikov in the courtroom - Vladimir Telegin.

Source: http://plucer.livejournal.com/537113.html

Action “VOINA Wanted”. Bank of America Plaza & The olympic torch monument. Atlanta. USA
Jan. 2, 2012

The banner was hung in front of the olympic torch monument in Atlanta, which was created for the 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics.

The olympic torch monument

The banner was hung in front of Bank Of America Plaza (aka NationsBank Plaza), Atlanta’s tallest skyscraper (312m/1023f, 55 stories, 1992), GA, USA.

Bank of America Plaza

“VOINA Wanted” is a worldwide solidarity action by the Voina Group for the persecuted artists and group members Oleg Vorotnikov and Natalia Sokol, who were put on the international wanted list. Photo - Brad Downey with help from Phillip Gilbert, Voina Group activists. Initiator of the action - Alexei Plutser-Sarno , Voina Group media-artist. Portrait of Oleg Vorotnikov in the courtroom - Vladimir Telegin.

Source: http://plucer.livejournal.com/532834.html

November 16, 2011

Vor in the Palace of Justice in Brussels

“Voina Wanted” – worldwide solidarity action by the Voina Group for the persecuted artist and group member Oleg Vorotnikov, who is now wanted by the FSB and Interpol.

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November 18, 2011


Vor in Paris, Pont Neuf Bridge

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Voina Wanted banner unfurled 3 Nov. in Prague Photograph by Yana Sarna

Prague´s artists and its mayor joined with Voina Group staging a visual protest action against Russia´s renewed repression of the art activists.

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