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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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Several 16mm film frames of a stairway covering both image and sound areas
19 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 4: Space

Guy Sherwin Thomas Köner Various Artists Takehisa Kosugi

A programme looking at landscape, filmic or architectural spaces and at how the fixed stare of a camera frame only captures so much reality; here we focus on how filmmakers structure our relationship with that reality and at how they relate it to or interpret it through sound.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Sean Meehan performing in a on a curved wall before an audience
6 July 2007
Union Terrace Gardens

Shadowed Spaces Aberdeen

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

Disused railway turning circle at east end of Union Terrace Gardens, a historically public space at the centre of a regeneration land-grab for the private gain of a local petro-chemical magnate.

Shadowed Spaces
Stones of Stenness on Orkney with microphones and musicians between them
20 June 2006
Ring of Brodgar

Stones of Stenness (Ring of Brodgar)

Akio Suzuki John Butcher

Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing by the Stones of Stenness, instead of the Ring of Brodgar, because of bad weather.

Resonant Spaces
A screen showing a cross of light with some green shade in the foreground
18 February 2006
DCA

Hototogisu & Bruce McClure

Bruce McClure Hototogisu

A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Kazuo Imai and Astuhiro Ito on stage with guitar and light bulb
19 February 2006
DCA

Kazuo Imai & Atsuhiro Ito

Atsuhiro Ito Kazuo Imai

A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Keiji Haino playing a saz onstage in CCA Glasgow 05
23 May 2005
CCA

CCA Glasgow 05

Jandek Keiji Haino My Cat Is An Alien Taurpis Tula

Performances at CCA Glasgow by Keiji Haino, My Cat Is An Alien, Taurpis Tula, Jandek with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson.

INSTAL 05 Publicity Flyer
14 – 16 October 2005
The Arches

INSTAL 05

A cast of pioneering spirits over an expanded three day festival including Jandek (one year on from his first ever show at INSTAL 04), JO-JO, Tetuzi Akiyama,Tom Bruno, Pauline Oliveros, a legendary Hijokaiden performance and Henri Chopin.

Ruins drummer at KYTM 03
19 October 2003
DCA

Ruins & Ian Halliwell

Ian Helliwell

Giants of the Japanese avant-rock scene Ruins are a hardcore prog rock bass + drums duo led by drummer extraordinaire Tatsuya Yoshida and joined in Dundee by Sasaki Hisashi.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
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.

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
Sachiko M & Ami Yoshida performing at INSTAL 03
23 November 2003
The Arches

Cosmos

Ami Yoshida Sachiko M

Sachiko M and Ami Yoshida, two of the most prominent members of the Onkyo movement, place much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music into a unique hybrid.

INSTAL 03
two white whales made of paper perch on a low coffee table
21 November 2019
Tramway

In the Sign of Jonah: Around Moby-Dick

Laura Harris Fernando Zalamea

“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James

Episode 10: A Means Without End
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