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.
A collaborative duo performance, Anoyonodekigoto sets up a sort of negotiation between a musician, a dancer, the audience and the space we’re all sharing.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
A meditation on how all of us perform — sometimes reinforcing, sometimes subverting — the shifting categories of gender, sexuality and race.
Usurper jamming live in a skip at the site of Bud’s Neill’s Lobey Dosser statue on Woodlands Road.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
