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.
UNINSTAL was a set of events at Tramway that tested out radical ideas with leading local and international artists. A collection of events (performances, films, installations, walks and talks) about sound and listening.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
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.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
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.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Amid the blur of erotics, the jangle of poetics, and the fetishizing of sickness and disability, the heat of Panteha’s performance and sculpture freezes all.
A double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
