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.
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
Edinburgh. Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga’s first lady of noise.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
A festival hewn from passions for experimental music, film and visual art and for a passion in figuring out how they can relate to, cross-fertilise and inspire and each other.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
