Prue Hyman interviewed me on Lesbian Radio about We Don't Have to Be The Building. We talked about how the research was done, inclusion, being friendly, and how to create solidarity together in queer activism.

10 - 04 - 16 - Prue - Sian

This five part poem was written by Anahera Gildea in response to and in collaboration with me, Sian Torrington, for Te Aho Mano / A Thousand Strands, an exhibition of drawings and sculptures made in encouragement to women, feminisms, and all of us who disrupt the dominant narrative. At The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, April - May 2017.

Image credit: Amos Mann

Poem for Te Aho Mano / A Thousand Strands by Anahera Gildea

This track is a playing of the gallery walls, floor and furniture. Also commentary from Sian about the show, energetic resonance of the room, and clanging. Harmonic kazoo, double bass and harmonies to honour the show and disrupt the church like space of the gallery.
https://bandsensations.bandcamp.com/

Band Sensations Plays The Engine Room

Anchored to she - my bones will return to the stars
Riding choral waves of fagogo embedded in the myriad of my gafa
#donttalktomeaboutthefuckingva

Leilani A I'iga-Pua made a musical beats response to Te Aho Mano / A Thousand Strands, an exhibition of drawings and sculptures made by Siân Torrington, with a collaboration by Anaher Gildea, offered at The Engine Room, Massey COCA Fine arts school as a show of encouragement to all of us making art who disrupt the dominant narrative.

Final Chapter

My first Femme Rants show, presented as part of the QUILTED BANANAS radio programme on Wellington Access Radio. This aired on the 14th of April 2019 and features special guest Sarah Ruby from the early 1990s Auckland punk-rock band Fatal Jelly Space (currently on hiatus).
More of QUILTED BANANAS can be heard here:
http://www.accessradio.org.nz/quilted-bananas-radio.html
or find the collective on facebook.
And more of Fatal Jelly Space can be heard here:
https://fataljellyspace.bandcamp.com/
or see their videos on youtube.

20190414 - Sian - QUILTED BANANAS

Process-based visual and performance artist & writer. Expression, glitter, vulnerability. Stubborn visionary. Queer. Increasingly an orator. This is where I put my audio.

Siân Torrington

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