Silvia Kohan & THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
Musical mind-meld with video documentation
2010
(Close-up; still from single channel video.)
(Gallery view; left to right: Katz, Foster, Lamm, Berlier. foreground, Crichton)

"One by one I have been matchmaking people with the archives of those who have died, asking each to invent a response." - E.G. Crichton, LINEAGE curator.

Nomy Lamm is a San Francisco-based writer, musician and performer. She performs with Sins Invalid , a project that produces work on themes of disability, sexuality, and social justice, and writes an advice column for make/shift, a feminist magazine that centralizes queer, anti-racist and international perspectives. Her band, nomy lamm & THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD, is a flexible platform for collaborations with musicians, poets, visual artists and filmmakers. She is currently in grad school at SFSU working on her first novel, The Best Part Comes After The End. For more information,  go to nomylamm.com.

Silvia Kohan was an Argentinian-Jewish lesbian singer and songwriter, known for her big voice, flamboyant costumes and showy stage presence.  Her family emigrated from Argentina in 1957 when she was ten years old, and she learned English by singing show tunes. Her only commercial album, Finally Real, was produced by George Winston and released in 1984.  Her best known original song was called "Fat Girl Blues," but it never made it onto an official release.  She died in 2003.