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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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Keiji Haino playing a saz onstage in CCA Glasgow 05
23 May 2005
CCA

CCA Glasgow 05

Jandek Keiji Haino My Cat Is An Alien Taurpis Tula

Performances at CCA Glasgow by Keiji Haino, My Cat Is An Alien, Taurpis Tula, Jandek with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson.

Miss Major waves regally from an open top car at a Pride parade, she is surrounded by other Pride marchers with banners and placards.
13 March 2022
Online

Chosen Kin: Making Our Loyalties

Mai’a Williams Miss Major Claricia Revlon

How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?

Mutual Aid
Kyoaku No Intention on stage at MLFC 05
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Kyoaku No Intention

Kyoaku No Intention

Munehiro Narita’s Kyoaku No Intention (Worst Intentions) fired out some of the most compelling no-wave improvised rock of the 80s.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
Lee Patterson sitting next to a projection of himself, pensive
10 October 2008
DCA

North West from Chester Hill, Composition – 10 (1960)

Lee Patterson Luke Fowler

A delicate and detailed walk through the urban and rural landscape around Dundee; a poetic focus on the details found. A performance for 16mm projection and live amplified objects (maybe pine cones, maybe a coke bottle).

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Beams of light fanning out from the right in bands of green and white
15 April 2007
DCA

Light Trap

Greg Pope Norbert Möslang

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.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
Shards of light on a black background from Sound Cuts projection
12 October 2008
DCA

Optical Sound Film Talk

Guy Sherwin

Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
A member of Ueinzz wears a blue head wrap and looks out to sea
21 November 2019
Tramway

Mobedique Hors Acvé

Ueinzz

A community of those without community, for a community to come. A schizo-scenic video-collage of the disturbing ‘normality’ of Moby Dick.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Inter title from the film Haxan
18 October 2003
DCA

Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

Mirror Phantom Engineer

Mirror and Phantom Engineer performing an improvised soundtrack to Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 horror film prototype, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Robin Hayward sits whilst playing a tuba with a ball of sand at the horn
15 February 2008
The Arches

Self Cancellation – Sand

Robin Hayward

Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.

INSTAL 08
A blackboard with chalk lined box shapes and orange post-it notes by a wall
14 November 2010
Tramway

Evacuation of The Great Learning

Mattin Ray Brassier

Three workshops lead up to an open invitation to improvise with the festival as concert. The last four hours of the Sunday 14 at Instal 10 were devoted to presentations devised during the three workshops. The material conditions (time, space, facilities…) were the instruments. From there anything could happen.

INSTAL 10
A dark room and Tone is performing at a laptop.
4 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

Paramedia

Yasunao Tone

A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.

A survey is a process of listening
Arika_Instal05_Bruno BW 3
16 October 2005
The Arches

Tom Bruno

Tom Bruno

Bruno’s liberated improvisational approach stretches beyond the lyrical, tough as nails rhythmic bursts and expressive, swinging attack of his drumming.

INSTAL 05
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