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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.

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Large white and red forms projected near a man operating another projector

29 November 2008

BFI Southbank BFI IMAX ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

La Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine

Metamkine

Multiple images, glimpses of old films, abstract images in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops & analogue synthesizers

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour

Ingar Zach & Rhodri Davies on stage at INSTAL 05

16 October 2005

The Arches

Ingar Zach & Rhodri Davies

Ingar Zach Rhodri Davies

Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.

INSTAL 05

A collection of sex worker call cards scattered over a table.

18 June 2026

Collective Art Workshop

Scotland for Decrim

Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.

Ryoji Ikeda operating a laptop surrounded by amplifiers

23 November 2003

The Arches

CCI Sound System

Ryoji Ikeda

CCI Sound system: a performance in which new material will be mixed and phased between two huge PA’s, one a precise Meyer system, the other a huge wall of Marshall amps

INSTAL 03

Ahya Simone performs on Harp in support of Juliana Huxtable

23 October 2016

Tramway

Juliana Huxtable

Ahya Simone Joe Heffernan Juliana Huxtable

Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp

20 March 2009

Extra Friday Set

Klaus Filip Radu Malfatti Sean Meehan Taku Unami

Quartet improvisation by Klaus Filip – laptop, Radu Malfatti – trombone, Sean Meehan – snare & cymbals, Taku Unami – rice and dish.

INSTAL 09

Junko, Ikuro Takahashi & JO JO Hiroshige performing at MLFC 07

13 May 2007

The Sage Gateshead

Junko, Ikuro Takahashi & JO JO Hiroshige

Ikuro Takahashi JO JO Hiroshige Junko

Three iconic figures from the Japanese underground assembled as a trio to stand in for the advertised duo of Junko and Jerome Noetinger who was unable to attend the festival due to illness.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07

21 – 23 August 2026

Hard Labour

All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy! Workshops, talks and visual art, hosted by Scotland for Decrim.

13 October 2005

The Universal

Stalled at Universal – CKDH & Dora Doll

CKDH Dora Doll

Edinburgh. Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga’s first lady of noise.

INSTAL 05

A black and while still of a photograph of a man melting on a stove

11 October 2008

DCA

Film Programme: Sets

Christof Migone Various Artists Hollis Frampton

A programme that looks at how sound and image can be treated as variants in a collection of ordered objects; at how to create meaning from the similar, and to notice difference.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08

20 March 2009

Glasgow University Chapel

dazwischen

Eva-Maria Houben

Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.

INSTAL 09

Sondra Perry stands on ladder in front of screen with multiple layered images

23 October 2016

Tramway

Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Work-station

Sondra Perry

A celebration of our overabundant social entanglement and complicity, that remind us of how we can see ourselves, stripped of powers’ attempts to grasp us.