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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.

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Phil Minton conducts a large choir
22 March 2009
The Arches

Century FC

Phil Minton

A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.

INSTAL 09
in a dark room Karen Constance plays a mixer on a yellow table
21 March 2009
The Arches

Free-form hook up

Ruaraidh Sanachan Karen Constance

Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.

INSTAL 09
Two men move things around on the floor
16 February 2008

Usurper

Usurper

This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.

INSTAL 08
Nikos and Rhordi wood chipping a cello near a projector
17 – 22 March 2009
The Arches

World Music Documentary

Eva-Maria Houben Fritz Welch Hermann Nitsch Jean-Luc Guionnet Jean-Philippe Gross Jerome Noetinger Joan La Barbara Klaus Filip Michael Pisaro Mico Nikos Veliotis Otomo Yoshihide Phil Minton Radu Malfatti Rhodri Davies Sachiko M Sean Meehan Seymour Wright Steve McCaffery Taku Unami Tamio Shiraishi Tetsuo Kogawa Toshimaru Nakamura

Greek TV company Onos Productions came to INSTAL 09 to document the festival and report on Nikos Veliotis’ Cello Powder performance.

A gloomy pond with dark rushes reflect a grey light. A pink lens flare
24 November 2019
Tramway

aspects caught in the headspace we’re in

James Goodwin

Goodwin’s writing emanates from the social life of poetry, from a condition of entanglement before historically racially-specific forms of representation. Another word for this emanation is breath.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
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
A large band play multiple instruments on a golden lit stage
16 February 2008
The Arches

Energy Births Form

Alan Silva Ben Hall David Keenan Don Dietrich Incapacitants Kazuo Imai Michiyo Yagi Sabu Toyozumi

We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?

INSTAL 08
11 March 2022
Online

Prisoner Solidarity in Practice

Prisoner Solidarity Network Glasgow Prisoner Solidarity

How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?

Mutual Aid
13 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Nimrod 33 & Shareholder

Nimrod 33 Shareholder

West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.

INSTAL 06
Ingar Zach & John Butcher playing drums and saxophone at INSTAL 04
17 October 2004
The Arches

John Butcher & Ingar Zach

Ingar Zach John Butcher

Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.

INSTAL 04
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