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Arika
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
 
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
 
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
 
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
 
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
 
Listening to people listening to their own homes. Musicians and actors will listen back to recordings made in local peoples homes on headphones, and interpret/ translate what they are hearing.
 
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
 
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
 
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
 
Can a musician create a sonic photograph; something with a depth of field, where you can hear sounds and their interconnections, much as you see objects and their relationships in a photo? Could a filmmaker use musical concepts to represent landscape?
 
A double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.
 
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
 
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.