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.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
The Scottish based Paragon Ensemble has commissioned David Fennessy to compose music for Instal, which will be performed during the evening.
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.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
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).
