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Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle 18-21 Apr, Tramway Glasgow http://www.arika.org.uk “New Black Music is this: Find the self, then kill it.” Amiri Baraka. Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can...

A CORDIAL INVITE:

We would like to invite you to come to A survey is a process of listening at the Whitney this week 2-6 May. If you would like FREE access to any of the days/events, please go to http://arika.eventbrite.com/ and sign up for a ticket - limited numbers, so get there quick!

Hi: We have 5 days of events as part of the Whitney Biennial in New York coming up. More info here: http://www.arika.org.uk A SURVEY IS A PROCESS OF LISTENING Whitney Museum of American Art A performative survey of listening, as we managed to find it being used as a tool in different practices, disc...

Thought you'd all like to know about the programme for our upcoming festival at Tramway, Glasgow. Hope some of you can make it. Early Bird tickets (£12 for the whole 3 days) are available only until end of the 10th Feb from Tramway. Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness 24 - 26 February Tramway, Gla...

Thought you folks would like to know about our first upcoming event in our Arika12 season.... Episode 1: A Film is a Statement 19 - 22 January 2012 Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK http://www.arika.org.uk Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film. Or, as Godard said: a tr...

INSTAL 10 Braver Newer Musics Fri 12– Sun 14 Nov 2010 Friday Line Up. - Resonance Radio Orchestra: 48-hour performance - Matthieu Saladin: 3 performances - “ ” [sic] Tim Goldie - Arika Delivers a Manifesto - Lucio Capece & Christian Kesten: The Borders Play Sunno((( - Diego Chamy, Jean-Luc Guionnet ...

INSTAL 10 Braver Newer Musics Fri 12– Sun 14 Nov 2010 Friday Line Up. - Resonance Radio Orchestra: 48-hour performance - Matthieu Saladin: 3 performances - “ ” [sic] Tim Goldie - Arika Delivers a Manifesto - Lucio Capece & Christian Kesten: The Borders Play Sunno((( - Diego Chamy, Jean-Luc Guionnet ...

performances start tonight.

hope some of you can make it along.

Barry/ Arika

hey: our INSTAL festival is changing. It’s moving to The Tramway this November (12th - 21st). In the mean time, we’re doing UNINSTAL between 9th -16th May. It’s a kind of taster. A preview. A set of FREE events that test out radical ideas with leading local and international artists: experimental mu...

KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION Sunday 21 – Sunday 28 February Dundee Contemporary Arts A festival of open-ended proposals for image, sound and dialogue. http://www.arika.org.uk Marc Baron, Loïc Blairon, Morgan Fisher, Jarrod Fowler, Emma Hedditch, Anthony Iles, Mattin, Christof Migone, Resonance Radio Orche...

Hi: just a quick note to say: 1: INSTAL starts this coming Friday (20th). i hope some of you can make it along, and that those who do say hello. 2: in other news, we didn't have time/ space to fit it into the publicised programme, but we've been working for a wee while on an additional/ special perf...

hey: cheers. we'll speak to the box office manager at the arches and see what's up with the £20 tix. there's no limit on them, apart from the date. just a way of welcoming in the keen. if it's not sorted in the next couple of days then yeah, i'd phone the arches +44 (0)141 565 1000. glad to see that...

Hiya:

so the website for INSTAL 09 is live(ish).

check it out here: www.arika.org.uk/instal

still lots to add to it but the general info is there: who/ when/ what/ where. please feel formally invited to check it out.

best: barry

hey: Trains: yeah, the arches is directly below central station. the arches in question were in fact built as the foundations and stables for the victorian station. they're 4 storeys below the station proper, and you can hear the train rumble overhead now and again. not so loud as you'd notice it fo...

hey:

eva-maria houben now also confirmed for the Friday organ night.

good times: B/ arika

Hey: i think we'll run something like this: Friday: Glasgow University Chapel (Organ): 7pm - 11pm: Nitsch, Nakamura/guionnet, one other organ work TBC Saturday: The Arches: 4pm-11pm: running order TBC Sunday: The Arches: 4pm-11pm: running order TBC we're just working out the schedule, people's arriv...

hiya nothing should clash. organ pieces will be in a separate venue on the friday saturday / sunday events will be in 2 spaces 40x10x5m, configured as best we can to make them intimate where needed, spacious where needed with appropriate PA's. audiences have i the past ranged from 150 - 450. quieter...

hey: just thought/ hoped a few people here might be interested in the line up for INSTAL 09, it's not on our website yet, and we've not sorted out all the scheduling yet either, but here's the people involved so far: INSTAL 09 Arika & The Arches 20-22 March 09, Glasgow http://www.arika.org.uk Herman...

hey: the ken jacobs/ eric la casa piece at the IMAX was performed live, so synching isn't really the issue. also, there were issues with the PA at the IMAX that meant the level of control we had over the side speakers was minimal the link between ken and eric is more conceptual than time based: ken'...

yeah, sorry there's no two day pass in London. there is in Bristol and Glasgow, but London has been very difficult to get agreement between venues, their ticketing systems, what prices are their standard and the ones we'd like to set (much cheaper)... still, should be a good w/end. see you there: Ba...