14 October 2005
The Arches
Jandek
Jandek
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
INSTAL 05
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24 – 26 February 2012
Tramway
Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
15 February 2008
Stereo
Michiyo Yagi
Michiyo Yagi
Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.
INSTAL 08
2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
What is the Sound of Freedom?
Ultra-red George Lewis
For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.
A survey is a process of listening
23 October 2016
Tramway
Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Work-station
Sondra Perry
A celebration of our overabundant social entanglement and complicity, that remind us of how we can see ourselves, stripped of powers’ attempts to grasp us.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
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.
22 July 2026
COLLECTIVE ART WORKSHOP
Scotland for Decrim
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
14 October 2006
The Arches
Jazkamer (metal music machine line-up)
Jazkamer
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
INSTAL 06
15 November 2024
Tramway
IN OUR LIFETIME Workshop
Hussein Mitha
A workshop for educators, activists and young people to think about radical, anti-imperialist pedagogy, and what fighting for the Palestinian cause looks like for young people in the imperial core. PDF of the resource available soon.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
26 February 2010
DCA
Mattin
Mattin
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
21 April 2013
Tramway
Zong!
M. NourbeSe Philip
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
14 April 2019
Performance Space New York
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
I wanna be with you everywhere