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.
A conversation between influential figures thinking through Blackness and Indigeneity, asking: what if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come?
A three-day celebration surveying all manner of diverse musical activities, which at their core share a basic kinship: one of exploration and the discovery of musical expresssion.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
A performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test. A game of chance. Constantly broadcasting live, actor Tam Dean Burn will leave Tramway at the start of INSTAL and walk away from it, in an ever increasing spiral, for a day. Then he’ll walk back.
