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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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Image with the word: Fennesz
9 December 2001
The Arches

Fennesz

Fennesz

Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise

INSTAL 01
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
Tetusi Akiyama sitting with a guitar surrounded by audience
15 October 2005
The Arches

Tetuzi Akiyama

Tetuzi Akiyama

An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.

INSTAL 05
13 October 2005
The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee

Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.

INSTAL 05
Metzger and students seated at table
17 February 2008
The Arches

Self Cancellation – A project for voices

Gustav Metzger Kenneth Goldsmith Simon Morris

A performed self-cancelling discussion, with artists from the festival, invited speakers and local artists talking at once, over each other, or straining to be heard over the din.

INSTAL 08
Up-Tight on stage at INSTAL 05 lit from behind in high contrast
14 October 2005
The Arches

UP-TIGHT

UP-TIGHT

Black-clad with an ominous aura created by their distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads and raucous mantric jams.

INSTAL 05
Hannah Proctor stands on stage in front of a lectern delivering their performed reading. Behind Hannah is a project image of a crowd in a smoke filled city street, giving the impression of a conflict or war environment.
13 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Four Endings to Begin

Masa Nazzal River MacAskill Hannah Proctor Gracie Mae Bradley Joel White

Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Philip Jeck backstage working with old turntables
18 October 2003
DCA

Philip Jeck

Philip Jeck

Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
A Special Form of Darkness Poster Graphic
24 – 26 February 2012
Tramway

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness

A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?

Graphic of a white bird on a black background
1 December 2002
The Arches

INSTAL 02

The second edition of the INSTAL festival broadened it’s scope to include performances from Francisco Lopez, Phil Niblock, Stefan Mathieu, Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda and John Wall.

A dark room and Tone is performing at a laptop.
4 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

Paramedia

Yasunao Tone

A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.

A survey is a process of listening
Keiji Haino talking to Alan Cummings
21 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

The Secret of Music – discussion

Alan Cummings Keiji Haino

Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
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