Since emerging in the late 1970s as a key figure in Manchester's punk and post-punk scenes, Linder Sterling has transformed herself as an artist numerous times. From early photo-collages, such as her iconic cover for The Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict", via her role as singer in Ludus to the recent stagings of a series of epic and spectacular performance pieces at Tate Britain and elsewhere, her visual art and mixed media work has synthesised feminist ideology and an irreverent aesthetic sensibility into a subversive critique of consumer society.

For this event, Linder talked to Brian Dillon about the relationship of sound and music to her visual and performance art, illustrating the discussion with audio and video clips.

The Wire and Sound And Music's Off The Page festival took place 24–26 February at The Playhouse Theatre in Whitstable.