MIRA 新伝統 presents a monthly series ‘Tragic Rave’. Musical tales, rituals and propaganda from Japan subterraneans.
For this episode, we receive Elin McCready, researcher, and professor of Semantics and Linguistics at Aoyama Gakuin University and co-founder of the WAIFU queer parties.
She will give us a talk during the first part of the show. Questioning the notion of freedom while taking us through her journey in Japan and the difficulties she encountered being a trans woman in the current political situation as well as the conservatism that still exists in some part of the local LGBT community.
For this show, we are partnering with our friends and allies Adults Play who made the background mix for Elin’s monologue.
MIRA 新伝統 is a Tokyo based performance and audiovisual production unit created by Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray.After their first project, the short movie “ Torque ” released in 2019 on the viennese label AMEN , they’ve takenon the club scene, introducing performance art and rituals to the Tokyo rave crowd.
They are also currently art directors for the Asian branch of the art platform Ultrasudio .