Usurper
Usurper
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
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This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Arika is working in partnership with Decriminalised Futures on a multi year collaboration featuring multiple creative projects exploring sex worker lives, experiences and movement struggles.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
The first INSTAL festival (programmed by Barry Esson of Arika and Tiernan Kelly) featured a line-up including Robert Lippock, Philip Jeck, Fennesz, Paragon Ensemble, Icebreaker International, Defaalt and Rhomboi.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
The Truth and Lies book project emerges as part of a rising tide of sex worker art and organised struggle to end criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.