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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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a close up of a music box and stylus surrounded by acoustic padding
10 December 2004

The Music Box (2004)

Petteri Nisunen Tommi Grönlund

Finnish duo Grönlund Nisunen are known for their extraordinary work fusing incredible sounds with stunning objects in large scale sculptural installations.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Makoto Kawabata playing electric guitar in front of a projection
19 October 2003
DCA

The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

Acid Mothers Temple

Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Hands fiddle with items lit by headtorch
7 February 2008
Lobey Dosser Statue

Personal Space

Usurper

Usurper jamming live in a skip at the site of Bud’s Neill’s Lobey Dosser statue on Woodlands Road.

INSTAL 08
Gary Smith playing a guitar at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Gary Smith

Gary Smith

Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
the_flicker
18 February 2006
DCA

Tony Conrad: The Flicker

Tony Conrad

One of the most startling cinematic debuts on record, The Flicker is more a hallucination than a film, an out of body experience and riotous celebration of visual harmonics frequencies. An experiment in perception, come with your mind and eyes open.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Robin MacKay sits on a panel of 4 people. He leans forward to speak into a mic
13 November 2010
Tramway

Before or after finitude?

Arika Catherine Christer Hennix Florian Hecker Robin MacKay

Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters

INSTAL 10
Ruins drummer at KYTM 03
19 October 2003
DCA

Ruins & Ian Halliwell

Ian Helliwell

Giants of the Japanese avant-rock scene Ruins are a hardcore prog rock bass + drums duo led by drummer extraordinaire Tatsuya Yoshida and joined in Dundee by Sasaki Hisashi.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Terre Thaemlitz lies on the ground, wrapped in a plastic sheet, and eerily lit
25 May 2013
Tramway

Soulnessless – Introduction

Terre Thaemlitz

“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly playing saxophone and trumpet
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Nmperign

Nmperign

Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
Three men operating electronic equipment. Fraser is in yellow on the floor
22 March 2009
The Arches

Free-form hook up

Grant Smith Jean-Philippe Gross Fraser Burnett

Droner responsible for Fordell Research Unit, Muscletusk’s murk manipulator and Metzian concrete-mixer cement international relations and yr heids.

INSTAL 09
A person in a flesh coloured catsuit, bends into a crab shape
24 May 2013
Tramway

(M)IMOSA | Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M)

Cecilia Bengolea François Chaignaud Marlene Monteiro Freitas Trajal Harrell

What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
Henri Chopin on stage smiling and operating a tape recorder
16 October 2005
The Arches

Henri Chopin

Henri Chopin

Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.

INSTAL 05
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