15 October 2005
The Arches
Directing Hand
Directing Hand
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
INSTAL 05
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15 February 2008
The Arches
Self Cancellation – Seed Burn / adh
Lee Patterson Rhodri Davies
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
INSTAL 08
21 June 2023
Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost Introduction
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Introducing and setting intentions for a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves.
I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
21 March 2009
The Arches
Ki: Mico, Tamio Shiraishi & Fritz Welch
Fritz Welch Mico Tamio Shiraishi
A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.
INSTAL 09
28 February 2010
DCA
Film Programme 4: Substitution
Various Artists
Acting at the minimum. Each film here substitutes one small thing for another, (ironically) transforming received meanings by the simplest of actions; often kind of funny too.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
13 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Usurper
Usurper
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
INSTAL 06
17 October 2004
The Arches
Steffen Basho-Junghans
Steffen Basho-Junghans
Repetitive, mesmerizing rhythmic workouts, to pieces of stark and rigorous introspection, where notes picked and slid in isolation, scatter like mercury around the listener.
INSTAL 04
2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
Temporary outpost for an auditory figure
Brandon LaBelle
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
A survey is a process of listening
27 February 2010
DCA
Marc Baron
Marc Baron
Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
12 – 14 November 2010
Tramway
INSTAL 10
The final iteration of Arika’s INSTAL festivals, the 2010 edition was an experimental festival of experimental music – 3 days of events at the Tramway that explored un-average ideas about sound and music.
19 April 2015
Tramway
No Ready Made Men – Performance
Ueinzz
A performance of Ueinzz’s new play. Each Ueinzz performance is a process of reinvention, between exhaustion and a fleeting vision: singular, collective, anonymous, plural, suspensive, intensive, unworking life.
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
14 April 2025
Week Six: Decolonising ‘global mental health’
Lisa Fannen Sapna Agarwal
We’ll be looking at decolonising ‘global mental health’. We’ll look at the concepts of decoloniality, of things being ‘culture bound’, and at hermeneutical injustice* as ways to examine dominator knowledge systems, and the institution of psych/iatry.
In Our Hands 2025