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Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.

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Phil Minton conducts a large choir
22 March 2009
The Arches

Century FC

Phil Minton

A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.

INSTAL 09
Pauline Oliveros holding an accordion while reading information from a laptop
16 October 2005
The Arches

Pauline Oliveros & David Dove

David Dove Pauline Oliveros

Since the 1960’s Oliverios has had a profound influence on generations of musicians through her work with myth and ritual, improvisation and meditation.

INSTAL 05
A circle of chairs in a room
24 February 2010

Investigation – Loïc Blairon & Marc Baron

Loïc Blairon Marc Baron

Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Fernando stands gestures with one arm out, the other hand rests in the crook
22 November 2019
Tramway

Workshop on Gestural Maths

Fernando Zalamea

Fernando thinks that when maths is deep, it should be simple and able to be explained by hand gestures. By embodying ideas, we’re able to more clearly think about their cultural implications.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Metzger and students seated at table
17 February 2008
The Arches

Self Cancellation – A project for voices

Gustav Metzger Kenneth Goldsmith Simon Morris

A performed self-cancelling discussion, with artists from the festival, invited speakers and local artists talking at once, over each other, or straining to be heard over the din.

INSTAL 08
"Episode 11: To End the Worlds As We Know It" title superimposed in white & red text on top of a blue back ground with a dark navy circle that looks like ripped paper.
13 – 17 November 2024
Tramway Glasgow School of Art

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It

5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?

William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, gold table to the fore
16 October 2004
The Arches

William Basinski

William Basinski

Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.

INSTAL 04
A group of people each holding a sheet of paper walk around each other
5 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

In Passing

Brandon LaBelle

A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.

A survey is a process of listening
Film still of lit sparklers in close up
15 October 2006
The Arches

See Noise Hear Light Sunday

Arrington de Dionyso Eye Contact Kiyoharu Kuwayama Maryanne Amacher Matt Hulse Rina Kijima Tetsuya Umeda

Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.

INSTAL 06
Angharad Davies, Tisha Mukarji, Andrea Neuman performing at MLFC 07
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Angharad Davies, Tisha Mukarji, Andrea Neuman

Andrea Neuman Angharad Davies Tisha Mukarji

Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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