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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26 February 2012
Tramway
All the Colours of the Dark, Except Black
Evan Calder Williams
A chat, with examples (Zola, H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Horror), about blackness and the sheer stupid thickness of what has no profundity whatsoever.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness
4 September 2007
Various
Half-Life
Angharad Davies Lee Patterson Luke Fowler Rhodri Davies Toshiya Tsunoda
NVA asked Arika to curate and programme the sound aspects of their 2007 Half-Life production in Kilmartin Glen. Arika worked with Toshiya Tsunoda, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies.
15 October 2006
The Arches
Maryanne Amacher
Maryanne Amacher
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.
INSTAL 06
15 November 2024
Tramway
When my heart looks for you, where will it find you?
Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato Sakina Ali
A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
14 November 2010
Tramway
The Echo Project
Brandon LaBelle
The Echo project is an installation as audio guide for a crowd. And at the same time it’s a private conversation: with you, as one of 20 people in a room, a sort of public intimacy.
INSTAL 10
11 March 2022
Online
I Have Never Seen a Situation So Dismal That a Policeman Couldn’t Make It Worse
Not One Rogue Cop
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Mutual Aid
21 April 2013
Tramway
WordMusic
Amiri Baraka Henry Grimes
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
10 March 2025
Week One: Welcome Session
Lisa Fannen Sapna Agarwal
In this welcoming first session we will look at the basics of using plant medicine – things you might have in your kitchen or easily to hand. We will introduce preparation methods, contraindications, dosages & remedies for common ailments.
In Our Hands 2025
16 April 2015
Tramway
Ode to 1 & more than 1
Constantina Zavitsanos Park McArthur
The first of two workshops that highlight correspondence as a way of working. Somewhere between song, speech, and logistical arrangement, these workshops invite participants to consider care as infrastructure.
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
11 April 2019
Performance Space New York
Lover of Low Creatures
NEVE
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
I wanna be with you everywhere
18 October 2003
DCA
Silophone
[the user]
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03