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.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
The first INSTAL festival (programmed by Barry Esson of Arika and Tiernan Kelly) featured a line-up including Robert Lippock, Philip Jeck, Fennesz, Paragon Ensemble, Icebreaker International, Defaalt and Rhomboi.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
William cradles, hammers, and rains down blows, plucking and using 2 bows to attack the strings above and below the bridge, all in the service of a fiery and passionate creativity.
What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
