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.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
Social and party with all proceeds going to the Unity Centre, featuring DJ SETS with Dj@Christelle, DJ D-Harsh, Nena Etza & Moor Mother.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
For day two of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by the Vogue’ology collective.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
