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 performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
Reveling in the geometric, mathematical and perceptual relationship between sound and form, this programme features a landmark work of experimental film in Kubelka’s Arnulf Rainer; a complex, enduring and expressive of structuralist or flicker films.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
The Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan, [EXIAS-J] are a loose collective of musicians and dilettantes who seem to represent an entire and self sufficient scene in one band.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
