Arika

Arika
Instal 08
Other events

Arika’s Instal festival takes place in Glasgow in February.

Arika

Arika is an organisation which creates underground music and film festivals and tours in Scotland and the northeast of England.  They run an annual programme of two festivals in Scotland – Instal and Kill Your Timid Notion – and will present their third Tune Up tour in 2008.

In 2007 Arika curated the sound and music for NVA and the National Theatre of Scotland's major landscape work Half Life, and presented a programme of experimental music at The Sage in Gateshead, Music Lovers' Field Companion.

Instal 08

Instal, a three day festival of experimental music, sound and performance, takes place at The Arches in Glasgow from 15 – 17 February. Nearly 50 musicians, artists, visionaries and bon viveurs from the Scottish and international scenes will use one of Glasgow's premiere spaces to interact with an audience with 'an open mind' and 'an interest in things that don’t fit into the normal, given categories'.

The Scottish Arts Council's Joint Commissioning Fund with the PRS Foundation and Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation is supporting a central piece of the Instal programme this year.  Self-Cancellation brings together Rhodri Davies and Gustav Metzger to work with eight other musicians to look at ways in which music and sound can cancel itself out and auto-destruct during performance.  Based on Metzger's work via his Manifestoes for Auto-Destructive Art in the late 1950s and 1960s, the artists will explore the way in which every new invention in society creates a new accident waiting to happen.  The performance will take place on Friday 15 February at 7.30 pm, and there will be a series of related events and talks throughout the Instal weekend.

Other events

Kill Your Timid Notion (KYTN) is a 'multi-faceted extravaganza for the senses', a festival of films, performances, installations and talks.  It takes place annually at Dundee Contemporary Arts, and will run from 1 – 4 May this year.

Arika's third Tune Up tour takes place in this summer across the UK.  Radio Space follows on from their previous successful tours: Resonant Spaces allowed audiences to experience environments such as Smoo Cave in Durness and Lyness Oil Tank in Hoy in a different way, and Shadowed Spaces toured overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered urban locations with three improvising musicians and one psychogeographer.

Radio Space focuses on ideas around micro-radio and the material properties of radio and will work with Resonance FM, Tetsuo Kogawa, Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington.

For more information, visit the Arika website.

Instal is supported through the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery fund.