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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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A group gather as Tetsuo Kogawa shows folks how to make a radio
17 March 2009
CCA

Radio Party

Tetsuo Kogawa

A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.

INSTAL 09
A circle of light from a projector circles audience members
12 December 2004
DCA

Sachiko M & Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall Sachiko M

Film and sound stripped of ‘content’ and experienced spatially, to be looked at not on the screen but in the space of the gallery

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Whitehouse shirtless on stage in the arches waving their arms
23 November 2003
The Arches

Whitehouse

Whitehouse

Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”

INSTAL 03
Taku Unami looks moodily at a computer screen darkness all around
22 March 2009
The Arches

A Signature of the Room

Jean-Luc Guionnet Taku Unami

Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.

INSTAL 09
Sondra Perry in a stairwell wearing a Steadicam harness
22 October 2016
Tramway

Resident Evil

Sondra Perry

Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Eli Clare standing on a stage, arms outstretched
14 April 2019
Performance Space New York

Eli Clare

Eli Clare

Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.

I wanna be with you everywhere
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Ben Reynolds

Ben Reynolds

An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.

INSTAL 06
Current 93 on stage at INSTAL 04
16 October 2004
The Arches

Current 93

Current 93

One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.

INSTAL 04
A view down a long underground corridor with lockers and a few seated figures
24 February 2010
DCA

Lunch Break

Sharon Lockhart

A slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Bridget Hayden playing a violin with Vibracathedral Orchestra
21 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Vibracathedral Orchestra

Vibracathedral Orchestra

Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
13 October 2005
The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee

Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.

INSTAL 05
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