Kandere is the music duo of artists Lakyn Tarai and Ripley Kavara

Kandere is the duo of artists, Lakyn Tarai and Ripley Kavara. Their connection is deeply rooted in queerness and their shared Melanesian ancestry, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Together they create waves of avant hip hop, synth heavy R\&B and darker club influences. With driving vocals & rapping structured around sharp energising production, they create a dynamic and powerful sound. Recently performing alongside Gaika, Elysia Crampton, Juliana Huxtable and Kojey Radical, Kandere will be releasing their debut EP in 2018.

Kandere

Various Asses

Makeda oscillates between aural, physical and curatorial practice, including music, installation / performance art, radio and design. Sketching a svelte aural palette, she has performed locally and internationally at festivals and clubs including Dark Mofo, RVNG International’s ‘Commend’ store, Cool Room, Soft Centre, the Cité Internationale des Arts, and Bossa Nova Civic - alongside a diverse range of artists including Klein, Oscar Key Sung, Elysia Crampton and Inga Mauer. Makeda’s J’OUVERT collaboration premiered at Next Wave 2018; and consists of a rotating cast of artists (working between sound, movement, dress, installation) in exploration of the colonial history Trinidad, and its infamous 4am street festival J’ouvert. J’OUVERT was shown at the PRECOG party, an event produced by Makeda alongside curator DJ Sezzo, investigating how marginalised communities come together in the celebratory alternate reality of the club. The party seeks to raise questions about embodiment, direct intuitive relations to the environment, identity and freedom from normative structures. As a DJ, Makeda started out on Brisbane’s iconic 4ZZZ community station, and has since become a staple (spinning and being spun) on stations including Hope St Radio, Triple J and The Lot NYC and Red Light Radio. The latter station presented a special live from their street window studio, located in Amsterdam’s red-light district. Highlighting the spirit of experimentation and storytelling that carries through to her DJ practice - Makeda’s ‘Red Light Intervention’ presented new material created about sex work from the workers perspective. The show was broadcast to passers-by and online to RLR’s global listener base. \* \[Soundcloud]\(https://soundcloud.com/bodypromise)

Makeda oscillates between aural, physical and curatorial practice, including music, installation / performance art, radio and design.
Sketching a svelte aural palette, she has performed locally and internationally at festivals and clubs including Dark Mofo, RVNG International’s ‘Commend’ store, Cool Room, Soft Centre, the Cité Internationale des Arts, and Bossa Nova Civic.

Makeda

We should be careful to consider exactly what future we are defaulting to, and what ways we have been taught to engage this default-future

Elysia Crampton is an Aymara trans woman artist, musician and poet based in northern California. She is unarguably one of the most important voices in contemporary electronic music. Crampton released \*American Drift\* in 2015, following it up last year with her groundbreaking work, \*Elysia Crampton presents: Demon City\*. \*Demon City\* is a concept album in the form of an epic poem featuring collaborators Chino Amobi, Why Be, Rabit and Lexxi. \* \[Soundcloud]\(https://soundcloud.com/blueberry-recordings/sets/american-drift-by-elysia-crampton)

Elysia Crampton is an Aymara trans woman artist, musician and poet based in northern California. She is unarguably one of the most important voices in contemporary electronic music.

Elysia Crampton

Melbourne based electronic artist specialising in cry dance.

TT SKTLS is a Melbourne based electronic artist specialising in cry dance.

TT SKTLS

Elysia Crampton is an Aymara trans woman artist, musician and poet based in northern California, and is unarguably one of the most important voices in contemporary electronic music. Crampton released American Drift in 2015 and followed it up last year with Elysia Crampton presents: Demon City, a concept album in the form of an epic poem featuring collaborators Chino Amobi, Why Be, Rabit and Lexxi. Its live version is accompanied by Dissolution of The Sovereign: A Time Slide Into The Future, an audiovisual play bridging the Aymara oral history tradition/theatre legacy with Elysia’s own trans-femme abolitionist grasp of futurity. In this, Elysia’s first ever Melbourne performance, she will present a new work combining music and text. Elysia will also present a separate talk titled Abolitionist Legacies from the Andean Universe.

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Elysia Crampton, Various Asses, Kandere, Makeda, TT SKTLS, Waterhouse

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Elysia Crampton, Various Asses, Kandere, Makeda, TT SKTLS, Waterhouse

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