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Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
Watching films and chatting with Karrabing members about those films: as they attend to the memory and practice of the ancestral present and the ancestral catastrophe that Karrabing and their more-than-human world find themselves facing.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Junko’s screaming vocal in a nuanced, piercing duo with Urabe’s fuming and convulsive saxophone, far removed from the codes of musical tradition.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Los Glissandinos work with clarinet and sine tones beating and thrumming in your middle ear, all beautifully paced and serene, but with just enough steely menace broiling under the surface to keep you on edge.
Coffee, Croissants & Massage – a welcoming breakfast for all with massage by qualified massage therapists present to give hand & head massages.
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
