Recent events

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement

Jan 2012
 / Glasgow

Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film.  Or, as Godard said: a tracking shot is a moral issue. A cross between a festival, magazine and discussion about experimental artists’ films.

A performance space set up with a ring of black chairs, all facing inwards
Audience members lie on the floor of a performance space, listening
A male guitarist plays the electric guitar against a black background

INSTAL 10

Nov 2010
 / Glasgow

The final iteration of Arika's INSTAL festivals, the 2010 edition was an experimental festival of experimental music - 3 days of events at the Tramway that explored un-average ideas about sound and music.

A Marchall stack, a lot of cardboard boxes and an audience in the background
People sat round tables and chairs in a brightly lit former assembly hall
A blackboard with text written on it by Christian Bok

UNINSTAL

May 2010
 / Glasgow

UNINSTAL was set of events at Tramway that tested out radical ideas with leading local and international artists. A collection of events (performances, films, installations, walks and talks) about sound and listening.

About Arika

 

  1. Provocative, iconoclastic, sophisticated art, discussion and social interaction...

    —Ed Baxter
    Resonance 104.4 FM

We organise experimental music, film and art events.  We’ve been doing that since 2001.  We’re interested in those artforms as ways of thinking, and as useful ways to engage with the world.  We’re interested in how music and film can develop though interaction with radical practices in other disciplines: artistic and non-artistic alike.