
Kazuo Imai
Kazuo Imai
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
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One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.
Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
What to do about a telethon other than fuck it up? Poet, tarotist, artist, and librarian Cyrée Jarelle Johnson returns to IWBWYE to read the 1980s and ’90s for what those decades were: practice for now.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.