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 delicate and detailed walk through the urban and rural landscape around Dundee; a poetic focus on the details found. A performance for 16mm projection and live amplified objects (maybe pine cones, maybe a coke bottle).
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
In Our Hands is a ten week programme of workshops facilitated by Lisa Fannen, Omikemi and Clay. The sessions explore radical approaches to health and collective care in the context of movement for liberation and social justice.
Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.
Final workshop exploring work, care and class. Does the ‘care industry’ summon forth its own class? Can this ‘affective class’, in their ability to care for others, militate against the carelessness of self-interest?
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
