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.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Jarrod Fowler and Christof Migone kick things off with performances involving edible plants, a saw, dandruff, and Christof responding to the prompt: “as far as you can for as long as you can.”
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
INSTAL’s third outing saw performances by AMM, Cosmos (Sachiko M & Ami Yoshida), Voreboms, Vibracathedral Orchestra with Matthew Bower and John Godbert, Paragon Ensemble, Merzbow and Ryoji Ikeda.
Kylie Minoise Vs Nackt Insecten feedback/ vocal physical threat ‘vs’ ecstatic electronic cloudbursts
What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
