9 December 2001
The Arches
Fennesz
Fennesz
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
INSTAL 01
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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Coffee, Croissants and Massage
Five Rivers Massage
Coffee, Croissants & Massage – a welcoming breakfast for all with massage by qualified massage therapists present to give hand & head massages.
Hard Labour
19 November 2017
Tramway
Sgàire Wood
Sgàire Wood
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
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Other Worlds Already Exist
19 November 2017
Tramway
Lonely and Hungry
Jackie Wang
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
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11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Peter Evans
Peter Evans
A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.
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7 February 2008
Lobey Dosser Statue
Personal Space
Usurper
Usurper jamming live in a skip at the site of Bud’s Neill’s Lobey Dosser statue on Woodlands Road.
INSTAL 08
16 May 2010
Two Dots over a Vowel
Christian Bök
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
UNINSTAL
14 October 2005
The Arches
Jandek
Jandek
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
INSTAL 05
14 October 2006
The Arches
The Bohman Brothers
The Bohman Brothers
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
INSTAL 06
16 February 2008
Usurper
Usurper
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
INSTAL 08
21 March 2009
The Arches
Carnival
Steve McCaffery
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
INSTAL 09
17 April 2015
Tramway
TLRS Morning Show
Laurence Rassel Terre Thaemlitz
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.