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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 black screen with the word, "words" written in large letters
23 February 2010
DCA

So Is This

Michael Snow

Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Kazuo Imai and Astuhiro Ito on stage with guitar and light bulb
19 February 2006
DCA

Kazuo Imai & Atsuhiro Ito

Atsuhiro Ito Kazuo Imai

A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Two rectangular forms of white light against black on a screen
14 April 2007
DCA

Surface Tension

William Raban

Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
A store front after Hurrican Katrina, chairs are scattered about in the street
23 March 2012
Tramway

Notes on the Emptying of a City

Ashley Hunt

A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.

Episode 3: Copying without Copying
Nikos and Rhordi wood chipping a cello near a projector
17 – 22 March 2009
The Arches

World Music Documentary

Eva-Maria Houben Fritz Welch Hermann Nitsch Jean-Luc Guionnet Jean-Philippe Gross Jerome Noetinger Joan La Barbara Klaus Filip Michael Pisaro Mico Nikos Veliotis Otomo Yoshihide Phil Minton Radu Malfatti Rhodri Davies Sachiko M Sean Meehan Seymour Wright Steve McCaffery Taku Unami Tamio Shiraishi Tetsuo Kogawa Toshimaru Nakamura

Greek TV company Onos Productions came to INSTAL 09 to document the festival and report on Nikos Veliotis’ Cello Powder performance.

Arika_Instal08_BryonyMcIntyre_Translation - A Campbell - D Nyoukis - JunkoIMG_3857
16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Aileen Campbell Dylan Nyoukis Junko

Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.

INSTAL 08
Music Lover's Field Companion 05 publicity flyer
20 – 22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05

Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.

Exias J playing guitars and double bass on stage at INSTAL 04
17 October 2004
The Arches

Exias-J

Exias-J

The Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan, [EXIAS-J] are a loose collective of musicians and dilettantes who seem to represent an entire and self sufficient scene in one band.

INSTAL 04
Rashad Becker on stage, performing at a desk with sound and audio equipment. The background is dark and a pinkish red light highlights Rashad
17 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Based on a True Story – 1986

Rashad Becker

The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
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