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.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
The second of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme highlights contemporary works.
Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface is a multi screen installation born of an intent to reveal the material substance of cinema in its purest form: spatially.
A concrete walkway ending in mid air, a ridiculously tight squeeze between three office buildings and various other sites of Labour politician and council leader T. Dan Smith’s modernist regeneration projects and ‘slum clearances’ of the 1950’s and 60’s.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
