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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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Carston Nicolai standing over a mixing desk
1 December 2002
The Arches

alva.noto

alva.noto

Patented 60 cycle hums, static pops, and terse electron pinpricks mutated into perfect, post-techno grooves and synaesthesic video

INSTAL 02
Current 93 on stage at INSTAL 04
16 October 2004
The Arches

Current 93

Current 93

One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.

INSTAL 04
16 August 2026, 10:00

Tell Me About It

Scotland for Decrim

Tell Me About It creates a space for direct one-to-one conversations with people who habitually find others (filmmakers, politicians, journalists) speaking on their behalf… In partnership with Edinburgh Art Festival.

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18 April 2015
Tramway

Poethical Readings/Intuiting the Political

Denise Ferreira da Silva Valentina Desideri

Three intimate 45 minute sessions, reading your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.

12 October 2005
The Universal

Stalled at Universal – FRU

Fordell Research Unit

Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.

INSTAL 05
A shot of murky green and brown water with several rectangular bricks submerged
20 November 2019
Tramway

All and at once

Arjuna Neuman Denise Ferreira da Silva Fred Moten Wu Tsang

Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Hannah Proctor stands on stage in front of a lectern delivering their performed reading. Behind Hannah is a project image of a crowd in a smoke filled city street, giving the impression of a conflict or war environment.
13 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Four Endings to Begin

Masa Nazzal River MacAskill Hannah Proctor Gracie Mae Bradley Joel White

Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Otomo Yoshihide seated between two upright pianos their interiors exposed
22 March 2009
The Arches

Filament: Sachiko M & Otomo Yoshihide

Otomo Yoshihide Sachiko M

Sachiko’s very simple, pure sine tones and structures. Otomo on double pianos. Filament’s music isn’t composed and it isn’t improvised: it’s a hybrid of the two.

INSTAL 09
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24 February 2012
Tramway

Abject Music

Mattin Tim Goldie

Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Tony conrad bowing a violin in the foreground, Keiji Haino singing behind
14 October 2006
The Arches

Keiji Haino & Tony Conrad

Keiji Haino Tony Conrad

Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.

INSTAL 06
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16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Jarrod Fowler

Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.

INSTAL 08