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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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A film still of a set of a living room filled with pictures and a couple
18 October 2003
DCA

Corpus Callosum

Michael Snow

Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in the exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, named after the ‘central region’ of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain’s two hemispheres.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Four musicians play some sitting on the floor, a recorder player stands
22 March 2009
The Arches

Free-form hook up

Ben Knight Hannah Ellul Neil Davidson

Two-parts Helhesten spit strangled shanties and cracked reeds from under a net of the Glasgow Improv Orchestra’s six-strings and one moustache.

INSTAL 09
A tape recorder on a piece of paper that reads play, stop, pause and record
12 November 2010
Tramway

Arika delivers a manifesto

Arika

Three (thankfully short) chats wherein we try and get at what’s eating us with regards to experimental music, and what we think might be worth salvaging.

INSTAL 10
John Butcher and Michael Moser playing saxophone and cello at MLFC 07
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Polwechsel

Burkhard Beins John Butcher Martin Brandlmayr Michael Moser Werner Dafeldecker

With a signature spartan sound and long term preoccupation in structural tactics (subtle shifts in density, drawn out stasis) Polwechsel blur the boundaries between individual instruments.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Projection of a distorted signal in blues and greens on a wall
15 April 2007
DCA

AVVA

Billy Roisz Toshimaru Nakamura

AVVA sees the internal feedback of Toshi’s no-input mixing desk is fed to Billy, and transformed into bright and variegated patters, striations and blooming colour, before being fed back to Toshi and manipulated on route to the PA.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
Image with the words: Paragon Ensemble
9 December 2001
The Arches

Paragon Ensemble

Paragon Ensemble

The program of composed music including Feldman’s Instruments III, Ligeti’s piece for 100 Metronomes Poeme Sympathetique, and Rebonds B by Iannis Xenakis.

INSTAL 01
16 November 2024
Tramway

The We of revolutionary love

Houria Bouteldja

The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Ulrike Flaig operating equipment by a cathode ray television
11 December 2004
DCA

Perlonex & Ulrike Flaig

Burkhard Beins Ignaz Schick Joerg Maria Zeger Ulrike Flaig

Real-time video feedback loops submerged in laminal sheets of sound soaked in gauzy timbral detail and multi-valenced, buzzing overtones.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Nikos Veliotis in safety goggles chips wood, cello and a projection in the back
21 March 2009
The Arches

Cello Powder

Nikos Veliotis

Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.

INSTAL 09
A black pen line drawing of all the members of the Carni Collective
26 March 2022
CCA Annex (Online)

Part One | Parte I

CARNI – Coletivo de Arte Negra e Indígena Periferia Segue Sangrando Denise Ferreira da Silva Ana Lira

A Breath to Follow | Um sopro a se seguir
Nisha on stage with glowing screen of a yellow circle with a blue figure drawing
22 November 2019
Tramway

States of the Body Produced by Love

Nisha Ramayya

In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Two men in suits and ties ride exercise bikes whilst reading from books
16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Simon Morris

Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.

INSTAL 08
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