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.
One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Deliberately blurred drones, absent of definite structure or rhythm, framed in silence and devoid of any distraction from the pure matter of sound.
A conversation between Philip and Moten: how do we read NourbeSe’s anti-narrative poetic lament in Glasgow today, given the city’s role in the history of slavery?
Inspired by the supernatural horror of H. P. Lovecraft, black metal and a sense of worry as to what constitutes an object, or a world.
A performed installation by one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
