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Some artists are best known for specialising in one medium, whether it be painting, sculpture, installations, print- making, film-making, jewellery, craft, collage, soundscapes, performance or music. But for Chicks on Speed, it's all of the above.A patient presents with a tungsten ring on their injured finger and is unable to remove the ring.

Chicks on Speed are Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan who founded the artistic collective in 1997 after meeting as students at Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Murray- Leslie was studying jewellery and Logan painting. While the two remain the drivers, Chicks on Speed's work often involves collaborating with other artists.

For their show Touch Me Baby I'm Bodycentric, A Multimodalplosion! opening in Wellington's City Gallery tomorrow, they have joined forces with Wellington-based jeweller Lisa Walker. Walker met Murray-Leslie and Logan while also a student at the academy and has worked with them several times.

Chicks on Speed are as adroit at producing music as they are in combining it with the variety of art they create that's been exhibited in galleries, including the Tate Britain in London and New York's Museum of Modern Art.

It has put them in the rare position of being artists well known not only within art circles but among music fans for their albums and gigs. It's also attracted the interest of big names.

Murray-Leslie says their next album Scream, due for release in June, will include collaborations with Yoko Ono and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living in Ecuador's embassy in London since June last year after the British government said it would extradite him to Sweden.Find all the manufacturers of laser cutting machine and contact them directly on Directindustry.

"He made the song with us in the embassy, which was an interesting experience," says Murray-Leslie. "We have a friend named Angela Richter, who we've known for 15 years, and she's a theatre director.Customized bobblehead made from your own photos, She had done a series of interviews with Julian over two years for her play Assassinate Assange.

"We said 'we'd really like to work with him'. It went from there and we developed the song and we went to visit him."

Murray-Leslie won't say whether Assange literally sings on the song until the album is released. "You will have to wait and see."

Ono, another visual artist to work with music, became involved because she's familiar with Chicks on Speed's work.some specific cause with the help of customized School Spirit silicone bracelet bearing the school logo,

"We're making a music video called Utopia. John Lennon and Yoko Ono developed the idea of a utopia in 1973, forming their own country with their own passports.High quality stainless steel necklace chain with durable color. We were somehow very inspired by that notion of your own land, where artists create their perfect world and that influences society."

Performance plays a strong part in Chicks on Speed's art. There's a live performance tonight in the gallery that will be recorded and played throughout the exhibition's run, so it can be viewed alongside the variety of artworks and installations by the duo and Walker. Chicks on Speed will also perform at Wellington venue Puppies tonight.

Murray-Leslie says one of the reasons Chicks on Speed have performed outside of galleries is that early on they wanted to create art that would reach a wide audience. "When we started it was more about ideas of distribution. I worked in a nightclub and I saw that music reached more people than art does. In an art gallery like this," she says, standing in City Gallery's North Gallery, "you can only fit 200 people in here".