Jacob Wren makes literature, collaborative performances and exhibitions. Much of his performance work is made as Co-artistic Director of Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. His books include: Unrehearsed Beauty, Families Are Formed Through Copulation, Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed, Polyamorous Love Song (one of The Globe and Mail’s 100 best books of 2014) and Rich and Poor. He has also collaborated with Nadia Ross and her company STO Union. Together they co-wrote and co-directed Recent Experiences and Revolutions in Therapy. He travels internationally with alarming frequency and frequently writes about contemporary art.

Momus is a Scottish musician, writer and artist. Since the 1980s he’s released records of artificial folk music on independent labels like él, Creation and Cherry Red. In the 2000s he concentrated mostly on blogging and a New York art career. During recent years he’s published six books of speculative fiction. He also performs an unorthodox David Bowie tribute cabaret which earned the support of Bowie’s own website in 2014. Momus lives in Osaka.

Dropped out by coming upon words of Patti Smith and Johnny Rotten, and nurtured her heart with Billie Holiday. Performed mainly at “Minor,” a space in Kichijoji, Tokyo, in the late 1970s, and released her first solo album Fire Inside My Hat (ORG) in 1997. The next album Rice Field Silently Riping in the Night (Majikick / Periodic Document, 2001) was released also in the U.S. and was highly acclaimed. She has since then released Hito and Kusa, Licking Up Dust, Light, From Now On and Mikan.

A fluid unit summoned by musician / potter Tori Kudo. The name of the group comes from a phrase in the Book of Isaiah that translates as “quick spoil speedy booty.” Mostly amateur members that live in various places get together for each performance and play without rehearsal, where even “mistones” are transformed into richness and complexity.

A new band that Keiji Haino, who has recaptured and augmented the core of hard rock, formed resolutely conferring the adjective “hardy” instead of “hard” on it. The Band covers what are considered rock and soul classics in English and transforms them into meticulous and hardy contemporary rock music. They focus on “song” for this project in a trio formation with Haino (vocals), Masami Kawaguchi (guitar) and Toshihiko Katano (drums) instead of the regular five-member formation.