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.
Power-electronic klutz behaviour indecipherable blasphemies, cuts, bruises and broken microphones by Kovorox Sound head-honcho Lea Cummings.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
Emotional fantasies, towers of cakes, identity troubles, collapsed distance and time and Samuel R. Delany’s rarely seen 1971 film The Orchid.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
Taking The Futurist Cinema’ manifesto and turning it into software to track ‘aluminium’ online, tracing relationships companies with interests in aluminum had to each other and other agencies.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
