AnarkoArtLab+Non Grata, New York performance at Russian consulate @3 PM at 9E 91st Str., NYC We bring body parts from Ukraine to deliver to the Russian Consulate in New York City. Ukraine is between two fires and we bring fire extinguishers to stop this madness. Worldwide army of anarchists and artists will liberate the world from the Evil Rabbit.
Free Ukraine, Free the World from Imperialism!
Flyer by Black
Sign by Jez Bold
Music by Jacob Cohen
Performance with support and collaboration with MACC
PERFORMANCE BY ANARKOARTLAB in collaboration with NON GRATA
Photo by Mara Catalan
Ukrainian Between Two Fires is a visceral performance that confronts the brutality of war and the complicity of global powers. The piece begins with a terrifying procession of performers acting as messengers, carrying fragmented body parts—symbolic representations of those killed in the conflict. These mutilated forms, made of real, raw organs such as hearts, guts, kidneys, livers, etc., evoke the shattered lives and dehumanization caused by war.
The messengers move at a slow, deliberate pace, their bodies heavy with the weight of pain and anger they display to the demonstrators who are also outside the consulate protesting on the second day of the U.S.-backed war between Ukraine and Russia.
As they advance, some performers are tied up and suffocated in clear plastic, sealed with red tape, their gasping and desperate movements visible but contained within the transparent layers of plastic. The plastic clings to their bodies, representing the suffocating grip of violence—the loss of agency, breath, and life. Their struggle becomes a physical manifestation of the stifled voices of civilians caught in the crossfire of political and military aggression.
Upon reaching their destination, the couriers deliver the dismembered body parts to Putin at the foot of the New York consulate, a condemnatory gesture of confrontation. The delivery is not an offering but an indictment—an indictment of those who orchestrate the violence from afar.
After the delivery, the artists undo a transparent banner that reads: “KILLERS.” The artists then place the severed body parts through the banner and in front of the consulate, where the American and Russian flags are flying, exposing the shared guilt of the global superpowers in perpetuating the violence.
Photo by Marisa Holmes
Photo by Matt Hopard
Photo by Adrians Black