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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
Inure Takehashi playing a snare drum among buddleia
15 July 2007
The former Abbeyhill Station

Shadowed Spaces Edinburgh

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

The site of the former Abbeyhill Station on the 1903 Leith branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith railway, overgrown and leading to as yet un-regenerated ‘wasteland’; taxi’s for 80 people, each instructed to take different routes between locations and; a slice of land concealed behind corporate business park branding off the Wester Approach Rd, apparently of no conceivable use and named ‘Chateaux de Scum’ by those who use it anyway.

Shadowed Spaces
Leanne Betosamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard.
16 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Rehearsals for Living

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Robyn Maynard Harry Josephine Giles

Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Angharad and Rhodri performing in St Giles in the Fields on violin and harp
18 October 2005
St Giles in the Fields, London

St Giles in the Fields, London 05

Angharad Davies Jandek Rauhan Orkesteri Rhodri Davies

Performances at St Giles in the Fields, London by Jandek, Rhodri Davies & Angharad Davies, Rauhan Orkesteri.

Octante & Margarita Garcia standing in a group smiling
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Octante

Alfredo Costa Monteiro Ferran Fages Margarida Garcia Ruth Barberán

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.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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24 February 2012
Tramway

Abject Music

Mattin Tim Goldie

Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Projection of a purple toned image onto a wall
19 February 2006
DCA

Jennifer Reeves & Anthony Burr

Anthony Burr Jennifer Reeves

An immersive live performance for multiple 16mm film and bass clarinet, taking in the whole gallery, submerging the audience.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Brown Background with Bold Block text reads Instal 06 Brave New Music
13 – 15 October 2006
The Arches

INSTAL 06

The 2006 INSTAL festival saw a broad selection of artists that included Blood Stereo and Ludo Mich, Ellen Fullman and Sean Meehan, Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad and a specially created performance by Maryanne Amacher.

Oshiri Penpenz singer lit from above at INSTAL 06
13 October 2006
The Arches

Oshiri Penpenz

Oshiri Penpenz

No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.

INSTAL 06
People playing instruments, some of them on the floor
15 October 2005
The Arches

Directing Hand

Directing Hand

A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.

INSTAL 05
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