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.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Stripping back the domesticated ‘meaning’ of (everyday, mundane, kitchen) tools to reveal “a lexicon of rage and frustration.” Plus an allegorical use of mundane, everyday things as an examination of how meaning is constructed in film.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival
