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.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Greek TV company Onos Productions came to INSTAL 09 to document the festival and report on Nikos Veliotis’ Cello Powder performance.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
A bodiless treatise on narration, bored speakers, audience misbehaviour and police megaphones, but: is anybody listening?
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
