Arika – Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It | Sun 17 Nov

Day 5 of Arika – Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It, five days of film, music, discussion and study

The final day of the Episode unfolds in two parts:

The afternoon comprises an assembly of leading abolitionist artists, thinkers and activists, addressing how we organise in the face of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.

The evening programme is a collaboration with the UK’s best experimental music festival, Counterflows, highlighting intense, emotive, ecstatic voice, synthetic music and noise, informed by revolutionary politics.

Toward Nakba as a Planetary Process
Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, Houria Bouteldja. And online: Françoise Vergès and Amirah Silmi
1.30pm to 5pm
Talk, Workshop
Tramway 4
Access: Live Captioning
Tickets: Free - First Come First Served

Ayreen and Rene help nurture and sustain the underground connective tissue between leftist, abolitionist, communist, anti-colonial organising in the arts; organising assemblies (online and in person), gatherings, meals and gestures, that try and provide some experiential and theoretical resources for the renewal of a certain affective, extra-political sociality. This assembly brings together key allies from across their networks of artists, philosophers and organisers, for a conversation in the face of one of our great adversaries; the forces of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.

aquasomatics
Ailie Ormston and Nat Raha
6.30pm to 7pm
Performance
Tramway 1
Access: Suitable for Subpacs, Ear plugs and ear defenders available.
Tickets: Sunday Evening Pass

Nat is a transfeminist and revolutionary poet with a punk-DIY approach to the voice. Ailie is one of Scotland’s’ most striking experimental musicians. Arika and Counterflows have invited Nat and Ailie to rehearse some ideas together, and share them with us in an open rehearsal of collaborative working. As they practice sound and spatialise their thinking around the history of racial capitalism and oceans or water: of reparative sonic and somatic practices that can speak back to violent histories of expropriation and ecocide.

Sunik Kim
7.15pm to 7.45pm
Performance
Tramway 1
Access: Suitable for Subpacs, Ear plugs and ear defenders available
Tickets: Sunday Evening Pass

A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything, processes and trajectories as yet unseen. 

This sound is a blistering Electro Magnetic Pulse wave of revolutionary hope, exclaiming defiantly that History is not over, that the future is not ‘history,’ that there is still a vast multitude of ideas and identities burning brightly and resiliently, despite the fact that they are inconceivable to the tyrannical Hegemonic axis of global capitalist tech-culture. Gretchen Aury

Rashad Becker
8.05pm to 8.50pm
Performance
Tramway 1
Access: Suitable for Subpacs, Ear plugs and ear defenders available
Tickets: Sunday Evening Pass 

The most sophisticated synthetic music around is made by a Syrian Communist living in Berlin, who is perhaps better thought of as a fiction writer. Rashad Becker writes (political, social, historical…) narratives and then sonifies them into non-linear compositions that unpick causality in music. But this is also body music: abstract but informed by the club, or by bodies in space, sometimes collected as ‘dances’: you might sway.

Chiquimamani-Condori
9.10pm to 10pm
Performance
Tramway 1
Access: Suitable for Subpacs, Ear plugs and ear defenders available
Tickets: Sunday Evening Pass 

Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like "the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”. Chuquimamani-Condori combines the traditional drum and ceremonial music from their Pakajaqueño family, with cumbia, tarqueada, and huayño, DJ tags, hyper-compressed digital bass and stargazing synth. Blasted, blown out, overdriven intensity, with everything in the red. 

The music programme at Episode 11 has emerged as a collaboration with the UK’s best experimental music festival, Counterflows. 

Full schedule, programme notes and access details for all Episode events is available on the Arika website.  

About our tickets
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