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.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
A recording session for BBC Radio Scotland under the M74 ‘Ski Jump’ extension ramp, a secion of motorway that doesn’t go anywhere, one of several such structures that populate the motorway system in the centre of Glasgow.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
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
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
