Elisa Harkins (Cherokee, Muscogee) is an artist, singer, electronic music composer, and curator whose work is concerned with the body, language revitalization, and Indigenous music. From 2020 to 2024, she created and hosted Mvhayv (Teacher) Radio on 99.1 WQRT in Indianapolis, Indiana, an all-Indigenous radio program that featured Indigenous musicians across genres, from experimental sound artists and language keepers to powwow groups and black metal artists.

Harkins has exhibited and performed at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Getty, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, MoMA, Spoleto Festival USA, and REDCAT. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award, and her work has been commissioned and performed by the Kronos Quartet as part of the Three Bones program at Carnegie Hall.

In addition to her artistic practice, Harkins presents lectures, artist talks, and workshops throughout the United States and Canada on Indigenous music, language revitalization, and contemporary art. Harkins is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and of Cherokee descent and lives and works on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma.

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Qiujiang Levi Lu 卢秋江 is an experimental musician, media artist, and composer whose work explores the body as a site of sonic transformation. Through custom electroacoustic instruments, feedback systems, and cyborg-like bodily augmentations, Lu creates performances and installations that merge ritual, noise, intimacy, and embodied technology. Drawing from Chinese lineages while engaging queerness, spirituality, and body dysmorphia, Lu’s practice invites audiences into physical and unstable modes of listening. Their work has been presented internationally at MATA Festival, send + receive, High Zero, IRCAM Forum, Inkonst, Zagreb Music Academy, and Temple DongJingYuan, with commissions and support from TAK Ensemble, Popebama, Luke Helker, NEW INC, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, The New School, and ElektronmusikStudion Stockholm. Lu is a lecturer in music at the University of Pennsylvania and holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and Stony Brook University.

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WAVE FARM and WFMU and ARTxFM are teaming up to bring you a weekend focused on the creative and experimental nature of radio.

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