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.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
A chat, with examples (Zola, H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Horror), about blackness and the sheer stupid thickness of what has no profundity whatsoever.
The Scottish based Paragon Ensemble has commissioned David Fennessy to compose music for Instal, which will be performed during the evening.
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Jacobs’ pulsing and abstract 3D Nervous Magic Lantern performance grounded by Eric La Casa’s manipulated recordings of everyday locations.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
