Arika  Archive Menu
Accessibility Settings

text size

colour options

monochrome muted color dark

reading tools

isolation ruler

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.

Filter the Archive
Suggested Searches

All Archive (720)

Order by
Christian Bok's blackboard diagram
16 May 2010

Two Dots over a Vowel

Christian Bök

Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.

UNINSTAL
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Red Kites

Red Kites

Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.

INSTAL 06
Kazuo Imai playing an acoustic guitar on stage at MLFC 05
21 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Kazuo Imai

Kazuo Imai

One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
Publicity image of a man with blood coming from his ear
9 December 2001
The Arches

INSTAL 01

The first INSTAL festival (programmed by Barry Esson of Arika and Tiernan Kelly) featured a line-up including Robert Lippock, Philip Jeck, Fennesz, Paragon Ensemble, Icebreaker International, Defaalt and Rhomboi.

Image with the words: Music Electronica
9 December 2001
The Arches

Musica Electronica

Musica Electronica

A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.

INSTAL 01
Hijokaidan on stage performing with intensity and strong lighting
15 October 2005
The Arches

Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan rapidly built a following due to the overwhelmingly physical intensity of their live performances, often involving destructive onstage rituals of vomit, urine, mangled guitars and ear shredding volume.

INSTAL 05
A section of exposed 16mm film stock covered in small abrasions
14 April 2007
DCA

Film Programme 3: Earth

Various Artists Ian Helliwell

Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
A gloomy corridor
27 September 2014
Tramway

Fugitivity and Waywardness

Fred Moten Saidiya Hartman

An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
A hand frames the word Panther written on a brick in pen
11 October 2008
DCA

Film Programme: Zorns Lemma

Hollis Frampton

One of the great experimental films. A 60 minute, three part riddle that maybe approximates our intellectual development by moving from imageless words to the recognition of silent images and the learning of simple tasks and finally a serenity and acceptance of death.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanabha performing on stage
14 October 2006
The Arches

Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanabha

Ravi Padmanabha Steve Baczkowski

Sax/Drums duo of raucous, pealing noise, and cries of beguiling lyricism, whispered sax phrases float in a timbral cloud of bowed metal and rumbling toms.

INSTAL 06
a Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician nonbinary femme with curly brown silver and purple hair and an undercut, wearing a “talk to plants, not cops” navy and turquoise crop top, tiny black denim shorts and a hot pink KN95 mask, takes a mirror selfie with a phone with glitter and many kinda of brightly colored animals and plants on it.
21 June 2023

Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost Introduction

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Introducing and setting intentions for a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves.

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
20 – 24 November 2019
Tramway Online

Episode 10: A Means Without End

Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.

?
This site uses cookies for analytics. See our Privacy Policy for more. OK Opt out
×