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A live recording of the Drone Bow project in a performance at Supermarket Stockholm Art Fair 15 April 2018. Still Mind/Vali' is a ritual confluence of modern and ancient instruments from different corners of the world, accompanied by words, texts and images, revealing secret worlds of impossible art in tribute to women of the underground. (Photo by Morgan P. Karlsson).

James Barrett - samples, beats, loops, didgeridoo

Katt Hernandez https://soundcloud.com/katthernandez - violin, modular synthesizer, vocals

Quoted or referenced in the piece are Audre Lorde ("Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power"), Angela Davis (address at the 2004 Boston Social Forum), Barbara Kosta (City Girls: Berlin's Modern Women of the Weimar Republic), Diane Di Prima (Revolutionary Letters 1968), Anita Berber, Vali Myers (from Ed van der Elsken's "Vali"), Hannah Höch, Rosaleen Norton, Claude Cahun, Emmy Hemmings, Leonora Carrington, Leah Hirsig, Maya Deren, Nora Carrington and Suzanne Malherbe. Marche Marche, Judith Malina, Rain House, CC Henix, Juliette de Bairacli Levy, Helen Nearing, Margart Andersson and Jane Heap, Rita Abadzi, and Polly Bradfield.