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.
“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
Durational group-mind drone and clatter: bamboo, electronics, the contents of your local ironmongers bin. A 3-hour set from this legendary Japanese improvisation group.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
A performed reflection on Malin’s previous re-enacting of a super influential landmark of performance art from the French feminist and artist Gina Pane.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
