States of the Body Produced by Love
Nisha Ramayya
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
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In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
The weeks previous TLRS daily radio shows, after-hours conversations, radio booths and special guests reassembled as a live electroacoustic performance.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.
Three iconic figures from the Japanese underground assembled as a trio to stand in for the advertised duo of Junko and Jerome Noetinger who was unable to attend the festival due to illness.
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An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
Slowly evolving ultra-subtle harmonics and multi-tracked, otherworldly drones that only reveal their true power at high volume.