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.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Disused railway turning circle at east end of Union Terrace Gardens, a historically public space at the centre of a regeneration land-grab for the private gain of a local petro-chemical magnate.
Includes: a £20 note, stock fluctuations, an examination of words in the video medium, a linguistic challenge for your mind, a frame by frame dissection 50 words, shop front poetry, image and language head to head and newspapers under the microscope.
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
Underlying radical transfeminism, as an urgent critique of binary essentialism and fixed identities, is the call for a new kind of thinking that can move between and integrate the truths of all lives in their transformations.
Three intense solo performances for drums (both played and screamed through), cymbal, voice, credit card, bird whistle, and guitar amplifier/leads.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
