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.
Looking at and listening to different ideas about sound and music, INSTAL 09’s collection of artists included Tetsuo Kogawa, vocalist Joan La Barbara, Phil Minton (and his Century FC feral choir), Austrian Actionist Hermann Nitsch, Steve McCaffery and many more.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
Julius Eastman’s Evil Nigger for 4 pianos performed by Joe Kubera, Kate Thompson, David Murray, Alan Fearon and Simon Passmore.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
