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Phonica is a Dublin-based performance series rooted in Word and Sound with an emphasis on multiformity and the experimental. Conceived, directed, programmed and hosted since January 2016 by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska, Phonica aims to explore compositional and performative ideas and to encourage a melting pot of audiences and artists from across artforms and borders.






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Phonica: One

Phonica: One took place on Wednesday 20 January 2016 in Jack Nealons (165 Capel Street, Dublin 1) where the curators were joined by Linda Buckley, Nick Roth, Sue Rainsford and Maurice Scully.

photos | Sue Rainsford's account






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Media:

Totally Dublin (April 2016)


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Phonica: Two

For Phonica: Two, the curators were joined by clarinetist Paul Roe, sound artist Fergus Kelly, sound poet & performance artist James King, and experimental poet Catherine Walsh. Wednesday 13 April 2016, Jack Nealons (165 Capel Street, Dublin 1).

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Phonica: Three

For the third edition our guests Michelle Hall, Keith Lindsay, Aodán McCardle, Michael Naghten Shanks, Dylan Tighe and Suzanne Walsh presented a blend of sound, word, image and performance rooted in multidisciplinary practice and innovation. Wednesday 15 June 2016, Jack Nealons (165 Capel Street, Dublin 1).

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Phonica: Four

Phonica the Fourth took place on Wednesday 19 October 2016 in Jack Nealons (165 Capel Street, Dublin 1) with performances and presentations from Martín Bakero (w/ Elisa Matilde), Susan Connolly, John Kearns, Elizabeth Hilliard, David Lacey, and Neil Ó Lochlainn (w/ Shane O'Donovan) traversing the realms of sound poetry, electronic music, visual poetry, vocal performances, improvisation, a burning of The Wake, and more.




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Media:

Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, and Olesya Zdorovetska, on Nova, RTÉ Lyric FM (Sunday 16 April 2017)

Robert Herbert McClean on Arena, RTÉ Radio One (Wednesday 19 April 2017)


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Phonica: Five

 Phonica: Five took place at our new partner venue The Boys School, Smock Alley Theatre, on Monday 24 April 2017, and featured a blend of songwriting, sound improvisation and live ink drawing, poetry in translation incorporating architecture and design, ‘musique concrète’, audiovisual art, and subversions of the expectations around spoken word performance from: Estevo Creus & Keith Payne, Kate Ellis & Rory Tangney, Laura Hyland, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, Robert Herbert McClean, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir.

With additional support from Miðstöð íslenskra bókmennta (Icelandic Literature Centre) and Vigo Council in association with La Malinche readings.

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Phonica: Six

Phonica: Six took place at Boys School, Smock Alley Theatre, on Monday 17 July 2017, and featured contributions, performances, and collaborations from Lina Andonovska, Jessica Foley, IRIDE PROJECT, Claire Potter, Billy Ramsell, and Nazgul Shukaeva in the realms of new and electroacoustic music, throat singing, telecommunications research, improvisational writing, installation and audio-visual composition and contemporary poetry.

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Phonica: Seven

Phonica: Seven took place at Boys School, Smock Alley Theatre on Monday 27 November 2017, with performances from from Anna Jordan, Doíreann Ní Ghriofa, The Quiet Club, Mark Tokar, Nerys Williams and Jona Xhepa. Multilingual contemporary poetry, electronic loop-based music, freeform jazz on double bass, broken narrative reading with film projection, sound art, and an improvised sound collaboration.

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Media:

Article by Christodoulos Makris in The Irish Times ahead of Phonica: Eight (26 March 2018)


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Phonica: Eight

Phonica: Eight took place on Monday 26 March 2018 at Boys School, Smock Alley Theatre with performances & presentations from Alex Bonney, SJ Fowler, Diamanda LaBerge Dramm, Alice Lyons & Justyn Hunia, Benjamin Dwyer w/ Jonathan Creasy & Nick Roth, and Joanna Walsh + community readers. Including a polyphonic stage adaptation of a digital novella (an Irish premiere), a poetic collaboration set in rural Poland, a three-way musical collaboration based on Samuel Beckett's 'Neither', a song cycle for solo violin and voice, an immersive sound session, and an improvised PowerPoint performance about poetry & performance.

photos | SJ Fowler's report | Alice Lyons' report






Phonica: Nine

Phonica: Nine happened on Monday 12 November 2018 at Boys School, Smock Alley Theatre, with dramatic and conceptual spoken word performances, experimental electroacoustic music, avant-garde filmmaking, and improvisational/collaborative spatial sounds with drones from Adrian Crowley, Ed Devane, Máighréad Medbh, Julie Morrissy, Rouzbeh Rashidi, and Judith Ring.

photos | review on Boundless and Bare





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A set of publications on the Hotel archive offering an opportunity to reflect on the procedural, improvisational, event-specific and provisional aspects of the series, with particular relation to some of the language-based performances and presentations. In these publications, curated for Hotel by Christodoulos Makris, a selection of writers and artists contribute texts and/or audiovisual material presented, connected to, derived from, or developed out of their performances at Phonica. (With thanks to Hotel editor Dominic Jaeckle).


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(After nine iterations Phonica's activities were interrupted by a number of factors, notably the onset of Covid-19. We are excited to relaunch Phonica in the post-pandemic era and to navigate the possibilities of performance in Word and Sound through interactions, innovations and provocations within the newly-fraught realm of the live physical space.)

Phonica: Ten took place on Friday 9 September 2022 at our new partner venue The Gallery @ The Complex, Dublin 7, with presentations of poetry, spoken texts and abrasive electronic sounds working across film, performances with violin & viola and through inarticulate speech patterns, and Gregorian chant-derived vocals, from Emma Bennett, Ellen Dillon, Panos Ghikas, Cora Venus Lunny, Óscar Mascareñas and Jonathan Mayhew.

Phonica: Ten was kindly supported by The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sports and Media, and Dublin City Council, through the Dublin City Local Live Performance Programme Scheme.









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Full PHONICA video playlists:



Phonica: One



Phonica: Two




Phonica: Three



Phonica: Four 



Phonica: Five 



Phonica: Six 



Phonica: Seven 



Phonica: Eight 



Phonica: Nine 



Phonica: Ten

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