Lydia Lunch + Marc Hurtado

Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker. Her career began during the 1970s New York City no-wave scene as the singer and guitarist of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery and she has maintained an anti-commercial stance, operating independently of major labels and distributors. At the age of 16, a young Lydia replaced one dystopia with another, running away to New York with the hopes of performing spoken word. Here, she could visit the clubs she’d read about in rock magazines; at the iconic Max’s Kansas City, she met Alan Vega and Martin Rev of Suicide, and at CBGB, Lydia befriended saxophonist James Chance. 
In search of inspiration and cooperation she’s worked with Karen Finley, Hubert Selby Jr, Nick Cave, William Burroughs or Virginie Despentes, she lived in New York, Brooklyn, New Orleans, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, London. She has visited 656 cities to perform on stage for concerts, spoken word, installations in clubs, theaters and museums.

Hurtado has collaborated with the likes of many including Lydia Lunch in 2016 on the album My Lover the Killer. And now together covering the music of Suicde and Alan Vega with Lunch, as both had known Alan Vega through separate channels coming together to tour, cover and honor him and his music legacy.

Hurtado is a musician, performer, poet, painter, producer and filmmaker who co-founded the French duo Etant Donnés with his brother Eric Hurtado in 1977. Apart from this duo and solo project Sol Ixent, he has collaborated with many cult figures including  Alan Vega, Genesis P.Orridge, Michael Gira (Swans), Gabi Delgado (DAF), Craig Walker ( Archive) , Pascal Comelade,  Z’ev, Philippe Grandrieux, Christophe, Saba Komossa (Delkom), John Duncan, Mark Cunningham (MARS), Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka. His films have screened in Beaubourg Paris , FID Marseille, the French Cinematheque in Paris, the Locarno Film Festival, BAFICI Festival Buenos Aires, Mostra de Valencia  and recently at the MoMA in New York, which also acquired his latest feature film “Jajouka, something good comes to you” that he co-produced with brother Eric Hurtado.