Mykki Blanco and Chicks on Speed at Somerset House Studios
10 October 2019, 14:03
Photography by
Jess Rose
Internationally renowned musician, performing artist, and LGBTQ+ activist Mykki Blanco plays a special performance following a short residency at Somerset House Studios, with Chicks on Speed’s Melissa E. Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie also performing a real-time assemblage of collected documentations to generate sounding visual art.
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