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Hi. We are Arika. We exist to try and see more people experiencing experimental art in more places more often. We do this by putting on festivals and events like Kill Your Timid Notion in Dundee and Uninstal and Instal in Glasgow. We also do site specific locational tour like Resonant Spaces and Shadowed Spaces.  

We work venues and partners like Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Arches, Tramway, BFI Southbank, Arnolfini, CCA, Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art and Design and Glasgow School of Art. 

The archive section of our website holds a plethora of event documentation including films (like Matt Hulse's SEENOISEHEARLIGHT from Instal 06), videos (clips from all the performances from KYTN 08), audio (recordings and radio shows) and photographs which you can peruse. Go to www.arika.org.uk/archive 

UNINSTAL 

Sunday 9 - Sunday 16 May 2010, Tramway, Glasgow

Baffling experimental metal.  Unlistenable silence. Language games. Sound poetry.  Anti-understandability.  Urban organising.  Bare knuckle improvisation.  Uncreativity.  Everyday sound.  Anti-gentrification. Radical field recording.  Conceptual writing.  Organised listening. Experimental film.  Absurd humour.  Biscuits.  Confusing emotional states.  Tea.  Walks....

We do INSTAL.

INSTAL's been going for 10 years.  It's one of Europe's leading festivals of risk taking and experimentation in sound as it meets performance and art: unexpected, unbelievable gigs, events & experiences.   INSTAL is changing. It's moving to The Tramway this November.

In the mean time, we're doing UNINSTAL. 

It's a kind of taster.  A preview.  Like INSTAL, but maybe riskier.  A set of FREE events that test out radical ideas with leading local and international artists: experimental musicians/ writers/ philosophers/ filmmakers/ organisers/ poets. A series of multi-part experiments, about certain ideas we’d like to know more about.  Still like a gig, but also like something else.

Check out the full programme with pictures and audio at www.arika.org.uk/uninstal/2010/

Check out the programme/flyer online at www.issuu.com/arika

Co-produced by Arika & Tramway

In association with the Arches

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My disciplines
festivals and events of experimental music sound film image and art

Location
We are based in Edinburgh. 311 Cowgate, Edinburgh, EH1 1NA. Telephone: 0131 556 0878

Website address
http://www.arika.org.uk