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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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Kiyoharu Kuwayama holding blocks of dry ice to a hot metal plate
14 October 2006
The Arches

Lethe

Kiyoharu Kuwayama

A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.

INSTAL 06
15 November 2024
Tramway

When my heart looks for you, where will it find you?

Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato Sakina Ali

A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
A large band play multiple instruments on a golden lit stage
16 February 2008
The Arches

Energy Births Form

Alan Silva Ben Hall David Keenan Don Dietrich Incapacitants Kazuo Imai Michiyo Yagi Sabu Toyozumi

We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?

INSTAL 08
A spiral form made of shoes and boots is laid out on a purple and red lit floor
13 November 2010
Tramway

Overheard (Installation)

Resonance Radio Orchestra

The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.

INSTAL 10
A performer with a small parrot on his finger, props on the floor
18 April 2015
Tramway

No Ready Made Men – Open Rehearsal

Ueinzz

Inhabiting a different kind of energy, Ueinzz’s open rehearsals reveal a glimpse into their ongoing daily theatrical modes of caring – multiplying the ways in which their plays are meant to be felt, rather than understood.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Instal 04 publicity flyer
16 – 17 October 2004
The Arches

INSTAL 04

Now a two day festival, INSTAL 04 was borne of a desire to open eyes, challenge audiences and expand musical horizons. This was also the year in which a certain representative from Corwood Industries made his first ever live appearance.

Ingar Zach & John Butcher playing drums and saxophone at INSTAL 04
17 October 2004
The Arches

John Butcher & Ingar Zach

Ingar Zach John Butcher

Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.

INSTAL 04
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
21 April 2025

Week Seven: Reframing Trauma

Lisa Fannen Sapna Agarwal

We’ll be looking at reframing trauma, how we might understand trauma in the bodymindsoul, taking a look at the physiology of trauma, forms of trauma, and at ways to mitigate and heal trauma.

In Our Hands 2025
Tetsuo Kogawa peers at several small radios as he manipulates the aerial of one
21 March 2009
The Arches

Tetsuo Kogawa

Tetsuo Kogawa

Performing with hand built radio transmitters, which react to interference in the atmosphere and the electrical impedance of his hands, his radio art is a form of social practice; a statement in opposition to mass media.

INSTAL 09
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?

A woman looks towards the camera from the a low angle, there are trees behind
28 September 2014
Tramway

Dreams are Colder than Death

Arthur Jafa

A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
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