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.
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
