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.
Now a two day festival, INSTAL 04 was borne of a desire to open eyes, challenge audiences and expand musical horizons. This was also the year in which a certain representative from Corwood Industries made his first ever live appearance.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.
In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.
For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
Conceived of as a dual publication, video cassette and booklet, to be presented as an installation. The content of the videotape is the artist watching television.
