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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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Sachiko M & Ami Yoshida performing at INSTAL 03
23 November 2003
The Arches

Cosmos

Ami Yoshida Sachiko M

Sachiko M and Ami Yoshida, two of the most prominent members of the Onkyo movement, place much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music into a unique hybrid.

INSTAL 03
Koji Asano and friend backstage at INSTAL 02
1 December 2002
The Arches

Eclipse of the Moon from the Backyard

Koji Asano Paragon Ensemble

Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon

INSTAL 02
11 – 15 November 2026

Episode 12

Save the dates for Episode 12.

Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026

Nate is shown from the waist up, leaning against a fence, wearing a navy t-shirt
24 November 2019
Tramway

Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey

“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanabha performing on stage
14 October 2006
The Arches

Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanabha

Ravi Padmanabha Steve Baczkowski

Sax/Drums duo of raucous, pealing noise, and cries of beguiling lyricism, whispered sax phrases float in a timbral cloud of bowed metal and rumbling toms.

INSTAL 06
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
The Bohman Brothers on stage at INSTAL 06 surrounded by objects and microphones
14 October 2006
The Arches

The Bohman Brothers

The Bohman Brothers

Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.

INSTAL 06
26 – 27 March 2022
CCA Annex (Online)

A Breath to Follow | Um sopro a se seguir

2 days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil.

Dois dias de discussões e apresentações online de artistes explorando as práticas cosmológicas, decoloniais e sensoriais de coletivoas de arte, dança e música de base negra e indígena no Brasil.

Beams of light fanning out from the right in bands of green and white
15 April 2007
DCA

Light Trap

Greg Pope Norbert Möslang

Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
A close up shot of a fender amplifier
14 October 2006
The Arches

See Noise Hear Light Saturday

Jazkamer Keiji Haino Kiyoharu Kuwayama Lee Patterson Matt Hulse Ravi Padmanabha Steve Baczkowski The Bohman Brothers Tony Conrad

Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.

INSTAL 06
Image says:Don't ask to fight their wars, don't tell them that's what we're for.
23 October 2016
Tramway

Against Inclusion

Dean Spade Eric A Stanley Mujeres Creando

What does it mean to resist seeking assimilation or inclusion within, or let our demands be co-opted by the very systems we seek to dismantle?

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
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