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.
A testimony to poverty from Chris’s own experiences, and an invitation to engage with an all too typical situation and context through a kind of imaginary listening.
A cast of pioneering and provocative spirits who exist outside the mainstream, between borders and definitions; a series of events that each explore different aspects of music that doesn’t quite fit any given category. INSTAL 08 included the Self-Cancellation project.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Temporary Outpost for an Auditory Gesture is a kind of performed installation that explores how sonic phenomena (like feedback, vibration, resonance, echo, rhythm) condition our experience.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
