About

Ruari Paterson-Achenbach is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, currently a PhD candidate in Music at the University of Cambridge funded by the AHRC.

Their work thinks about sound and performance as vehicles for memory, resistance and the radical potentials of social life. Through an intimate, affective engagement with Outsider Music, their PhD project hopes to uncover an alternative archive of sound, unveiling radical potential for creativity within and through non-normative social life. More broadly, their research interests include queer temporality, critical listening, creative anarchism, black feminist thought and decoloniality. Ruari was also a ‘New Creative’ and has produced works with and for the ICA, BBC and NTS Radio. They have performed in spaces such as Tate Modern, the London Contemporary Music Festival, Cafe OTO and the Heong Gallery. They love to find joy and beauty in the everyday.