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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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Still from animated film ‘shit’s totally fucked! What can we do? A mutual aid explainer’ – text and illustrations on paper and wood, that spells out “something really important about all this is that Mutual Aid is not Charity”
9 March 2022

Mutual Aid on the Road to Abolition

Dean Spade Abolitionist Futures

How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?

Mutual Aid
Computer screen revealing some data and a green shape
17 October 2003
DCA

Cyclo

Carsten Nicolai Ryoji Ikeda

Two figureheads of the minimalist electronica pulse, Ikeda and Nicolai have been responsible for some of the most innovative and ground-breaking music of the last decade, redefining experimental electronica.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Fritz Welch and Neil Davidson playing a string quartet on drums and guitar
13 November 2010
Tramway

String Quartet

Neil Davidson

Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets

INSTAL 10
Keiji Haino's face and hands blurred in circular movement on stage at MLFC 05
20 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

The Secret of Music

Keiji Haino

Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.

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.

Vibracathedral Orchestra on stage in red light
23 November 2003

Vibracathedral Orchestra & Matthew Bower & John Godbert

John Godbert Matthew Bower Vibracathedral Orchestra

For this one off performance Vibracathedral Orchestra are joined by Matthew Bower and John Godbert from mighty UK heavy/drone/psych free-noise behemoths Skullfower, Sunroof! and Total.

INSTAL 03
Arika_Episode2_EugeneThacker_AWoodward-3
26 February 2012
Tramway

Cosmic Pessimism

Eugene Thacker

A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Jean-Luc and Toshi sitting near an organ
20 March 2009
Glasgow University Chapel

Jean-Luc Guionnet & Toshimaru Nakamura

Jean-Luc Guionnet Toshimaru Nakamura

Brain boiling duo improvisation by great Japanese no input mixing desk pioneer Toshi Nakamura and french organ philosopher Jean-Luc Guionnet.

INSTAL 09
Tens of silken knotted ropes in shades of gold and blue hang vertically
22 November 2019
Tramway

Exhibition: Gravitational Feel

Fred Moten Wu Tsang

How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Ingar Zach & Rhodri Davies on stage at INSTAL 05
16 October 2005
The Arches

Ingar Zach & Rhodri Davies

Ingar Zach Rhodri Davies

Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.

INSTAL 05
under a dramatic spotlight boychild wrapped in string is hunched and performs
25 May 2013
Tramway

#untitled lipsync 2

boychild

The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.

Loren and Alan playing electric guitars
16 October 2005
The Arches

Loren Mazzacane Connors & Alan Licht

Alan Licht Loren Mazzacane Connors

An utterly deep introspection told in aching, weeping guitar lines; melodic, simple, always minimal but somehow entirely epic.

INSTAL 05
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