Lain Iwakura is a sound & performance artist, DJ, sound engineer, writer and activist based in Graz. She studied musicology/sociology/philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt, is currently doing her master's degree in computer music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and is a scholarship student at The New Centre of Research and Practice. Until recently she was running the music labels ‘Force Inc.’ & ‘mille plateaux’, as well as the theory platform 'NON', with their original founder Achim Szepanski († 22. September 2024), which she inherited now. In Graz she co-founded the collective ‘O’, is part of the ‘institute for sonic welfare’ and in the music team of the Forum Stadtpark, as well as co-founder of the awareness group ‘awaGraz’, and was founding-member of the collective ‘CMKK’. For several years now she has been dealing with polychronicity, the non-philosophy of time & rhythm and the escape to Uchronia, in this context she developed the exhibition ‘ATC - Against the Clock’ with Jeronimo Voss. With her Social Noise Performances, she combines the question of social composition with vulnerability and the limitations of subjectivation. She is currently working on a project about the connection between sonic-fiction & auto-theory as a necessary mytho-scientific practice of fictionalising, as writing oneself into the world by dehumanised people, as well as the irreality of cis-gender in view of an preceding and all encompassing general transsexuality.