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.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
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.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Performances at St Giles in the Fields, London by Jandek, Rhodri Davies & Angharad Davies, Rauhan Orkesteri.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
