Eroteme opens 2026 with a duo performance by Anne-F Jacques and Ryoko Akama.
Both artists work with sound as a material process, foregrounding low technology, physical interaction, and the unstable behaviour of everyday objects. Their collaboration brings together amplification, feedback, and constructed systems, allowing fragile sonic situations to emerge through attentiveness, risk, and constraint.
Anne-F previously performed for Eroteme in 2022, and the duo’s performance at AME in Huddersfield the same year was a highlight of that season.
The evening opens with a solo performance by Karl D’Silva, whose saxophone practice explores extended technique, breath, and micro-gestural detail.
🍲 Food is included in the ticket price — arrive early to avoid disappointment!
Anne-F Jacques is a sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. She is interested in amplification, erratic devices and oblique interactions between materials with the construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems.
Jacques creates unique sound-making Objects from small motors, found objects and other discarded parts, and she utilizes contact mics and tiny amplification set-ups to produce really fascinating textures and unexpected rhythms.
Her particular focus is on low technology, trivial and unpolished sounds. She regularly realizes installations, performances and ephemeral interventions and gives workshops about domestic appliances hacking. She has worked amongst others with Tsonami Festival (Chile), Experimental Intermedia (New York), Ftarri (Tokyo), CTM (Berlin), Umbral (Mexico), Centrale for Contemporary Arts(Brussels), High Zero (Baltimore) and MEM (Bilbao).
In addition to her sound work, Jacques also ran Crustacés Tapes, a sound art distribution project where people could send postcards or gifts in exchange for the different cassettes that were available. More recently, she has moved on to starting Presses Précaires, a DIY label focused on releasing “obscure and luminous sounds on magnetic tape.”
A Japanese-Korean working with installation, performance and composition, residing in Huddersfield, UK.
Her works sculpt domestic appliances and scrap wastes with invisible energy, especially interested in heat, magnetism and gravity, into kinetic contraptions. her works are site-specific, infusing both aural / visual occurrence as one entity, creating ephemeral situations that magnify silence, time and space. Interested in nature of relativity, culture and ecosystem, her artistic practice examines environment, architecture, immigration, conflict and fluidity of being.
She also composes and performs alternative scores and text works in collaboration with other artists and musicians worldwide. She is a member of the lappetites, electronic musician collective since 2000 and a member of the 9-piece band a.hop.
She is an artistic director for ame c.i.c., supporting DIY culture and underground art/music scene. She also co-runs the independent publisher mumei publishing and melange edition.
