
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.


Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plane
Angharad Davies Mark Wastell Nikos Veliotis Tony Conrad
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years

Defaalt
Defaalt
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.

The Strangeness of Dub
Dhanveer Brar Edward George
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.

Radio Party
Tetsuo Kogawa
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.

Sean Meehan
Sean Meehan
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space

Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now) host

B-52
Hartmut Bitomsky
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Bringing together artists working with music, sound, film and the moving image, KYTN 2008 saw performances, improvisations, screenings and installations over three days at DCA.

Live Immersive Performance
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.

Film Programme: Zorns Lemma
Hollis Frampton
One of the great experimental films. A 60 minute, three part riddle that maybe approximates our intellectual development by moving from imageless words to the recognition of silent images and the learning of simple tasks and finally a serenity and acceptance of death.

Soulnessless – Cantos I-IV
Terre Thaemlitz
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…