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About Mia Farrow
In the smoky, strobe-lit basement of CBGB in 1978, she didn’t sing, she dismantled. Wearing a deconstructed wedding dress stitched with safety pins and thrift-store lace, Mia Farrow staged a 12-minute anti-narrative piece titled 'Static Bride,' where she slowly shredded Polaroids of herself mid-performance while a tape loop of dial tones and distorted lullabies played. Though often conflated with her more famous namesake, this Mia Farrow emerged from the Lower East Side’s no-wave fringe, collaborating with Lydia Lunch on sound collages and designing stage costumes for The Contortions using X-ray film negatives and burnt silk. Her 1983 zine 'Gutter Halo' pioneered the use of photocopied collage as political syntax, layering Reagan-era headlines over punk flyers and Catholic iconography to interrogate sanctity, surveillance, and sonic disobedience. She never signed a record deal, but her influence echoes in the staging logic of contemporary artists like Zsela and the material ethics of designers at Eckhaus Latta.
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