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.
Usurper jamming live in a skip at the site of Bud’s Neill’s Lobey Dosser statue on Woodlands Road.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.
A testimony to poverty from Chris’s own experiences, and an invitation to engage with an all too typical situation and context through a kind of imaginary listening.
The final iteration of Arika’s INSTAL festivals, the 2010 edition was an experimental festival of experimental music – 3 days of events at the Tramway that explored un-average ideas about sound and music.
Three (thankfully short) chats wherein we try and get at what’s eating us with regards to experimental music, and what we think might be worth salvaging.
