 
Keiji Haino & Tony Conrad
Keiji Haino Tony Conrad
Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.
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Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.
 
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(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
 
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An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
 
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
 
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.