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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 blurry crowd mill on dance floor in the centre of a theatre space
13 November 2010
Tramway

Speculative Solution

Florian Hecker

A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.

INSTAL 10
: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has long brown hair, wearing a denim shirt with a camouflage jacket on top. Behind them is are tall reed like plants and red tree branches to the foreground.
13 November 2024
Glasgow School of Art

I am not a nation-state

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Nat Raha

One of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation discusses practices of Indigenous Resurgence drawn from Nishnaabeg poetic knowledge.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
A person sat in a car waving. There is a parade & their jacket is colourful
22 October 2016
Tramway

Miss Major in conversation with Eric A Stanley

Eric A Stanley Miss Major

A conversation of intergenerational trans-resistance and anti-racist fierceness between two of the most inspiring public speakers we know.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Arika_Instal08_BryonyMcIntyre_Marginal Consort - Imai 2106
17 February 2008
The Arches

Marginal Consort

Marginal Consort

Durational group-mind drone and clatter: bamboo, electronics, the contents of your local ironmongers bin. A 3-hour set from this legendary Japanese improvisation group.

INSTAL 08
Bold white text on Red background reads Kill Your Timid Notion
21 – 28 February 2010
DCA

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

A mixture of investigation groups, live performances, screenings and installations at DCA; the festival looked to strip back music, sound, film and moving image to their core ideas and explore them with artists and audiences.

Amplifiers outside with mics on the floor coming from them
27 February 2010
DCA

Hit Parade

Christof Migone

Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Rhodri Davies and Terry Day performing at MLFC 07
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Rhodri Davies & Terry Day

Rhodri Davies Terry Day

Terry is one of the most entertaining and unpredictable musicians in the London free improvising music scene. Rhodri Davies extends his instrument under a battery of techniques creating sound colours and textures quite alien to the harp.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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
An alto saxophone lying on a red cloth along with various small objects
22 March 2009
The Arches

Seymour Wright

Seymour Wright

A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.

INSTAL 09
A projected circle of light made up of fragments, patterns
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank BFI IMAX ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

Bruce McClure

Bruce McClure

Noise music for the eyes: projectors turned into instruments, B&W film loops into a thrumming riot of colour, motion and sound.

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
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
Arika_Instal08_BryonyMcIntyre_TM - Incapacitants 467
15 February 2008
Stereo

Incapacitants

Incapacitants Junko Kazuo Imai

Ecstatic, scalding and ludicrously heavy, nobody matches Incapacitants for live noise energy. One of the most exhilarating live acts in underground music.

INSTAL 08