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.
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Can a musician create a sonic photograph; something with a depth of field, where you can hear sounds and their interconnections, much as you see objects and their relationships in a photo? Could a filmmaker use musical concepts to represent landscape?
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
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.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
