Moor Mother

Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician, poet, visual artist, and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. Her work spans free jazz, experimental music, classical, and noise—using field recordings, archival material, and sound collage to construct sonic maps that collapse linear time. Rooted in Black Quantum Futurism, her practice excavates buried histories while imagining liberated futures. She has performed and exhibited at the Guggenheim, The Met, Carnegie Hall, Documenta 15, Glastonbury, and the Berlin Jazz Festival. A Pew Fellow and Creative Capital grantee, Moor Mother builds radical tools for listening, remembering, and transformation.

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Pussy Riot

Conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist art movement. She was sentenced in 2012 to 2 years’ imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance Punk Prayer. Punk Prayer was named by The Guardian among the best art pieces of the 21st century. Tolokonnikova's Putin’s Ashes art installation at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in January 2023 propelled her into a new criminal case and put on Russia’s most wanted criminal list. In 2024 her debut museum exhibition RAGE, opened at OK Linz, Linz, Austria, and the eponymous performance piece performed at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In 2025, Tolokonnikova has solo shows at Honor Fraser gallery (Los Angeles), Nagel Draxler (Berlin), and MOCA (Los Angeles). Tolokonnikova's work is in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, MOCA (Los Angeles), Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Art and Design, American Folk Art Museum, Taschen, and Beth Rudin DeWoody, among others.
Born: Norilsk, Siberia
Lives: Geographically anonymous

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Doors at 8pm, Show at 8:30pm.

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Tue, Dec 2, 7pm

A Conversation: Laurie Anderson and Nadya Tolokonnikova

In her letter to Slavoj Žižek, written from the prison on February 23, 2013, Nadya Tolokonnikova addresses Laurie Anderson: “If only Laurie and I could've had the chance to take those experts down a peg! And solve our problems without them. Because expert status is no portal to the Kingdom of Absolute Truth.” More than 10 years later, they finally meet: two artists who've spent decades dismantling boundaries—between sound and image, performance and protest, art and action—joined in conversation.

Additional ticket required. This event is free for concert attendees. At 7pm, open seats will be offered to others.