Networking, Keynote(s), Workshop co-curated by Janet Bakalarz
Awareness Fair16:00–19:00
180 min
4lthangrund
Lain Iwakura
she/they/non
awaGraz
Graz, Austria
Lain Iwakura is a sound & performance artist, DJ, sound engineer, writer and activist based in Graz. She studied musicology/sociology/philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt, is currently doing her master's degree in computer music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and is a scholarship student at The New Center of Research and Practice. Together with Achim Szepanski, she runs the two music labels “Force Inc.” & “mille plateaux”. In Graz she co-founded the collective “O”, is part of the “institute for sonic welfare” and in the curatorial music team of Forum Stadtpark, as well as co-founder of the awareness group “awaGraz”, and member of the collective “CMKK”. For several years now she has been dealing with polychronicity, the non-philosophy of time & rhythm, the escape to Uchronia, in this context she developed the exhibition “ATC - Against the Clock” with Jeronimo Voss. With her Social Noise Performances, she combines the question of social composition with vulnerability and the limitations of subjectivation. She is currently working on a project about the connection between sonic fiction & auto-theory as a necessary mytho-scientific practice of fictioning, as means of writing oneself into the world by dehumanized people, as well as the irreality of cis-gender in view of an all people encompassing & preceding transsexuality.