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.
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
A cast of pioneering spirits over an expanded three day festival including Jandek (one year on from his first ever show at INSTAL 04), JO-JO, Tetuzi Akiyama,Tom Bruno, Pauline Oliveros, a legendary Hijokaiden performance and Henri Chopin.
Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
