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.
Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
A glance at both analogue and digital processes; the clarity and precision of digital colour or the yawning, endless depth of dye and emulsion, our programme celebrates how both approaches revel in colour, saturation, hue and tone.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
The 2006 INSTAL festival saw a broad selection of artists that included Blood Stereo and Ludo Mich, Ellen Fullman and Sean Meehan, Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad and a specially created performance by Maryanne Amacher.
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
With lo-fi dreams and high-def humor, Bande brings MC vibes to the day. Interluding music with spoken performance, the live extimacy of Bande’s presence reaches out via emo-techno-bridges.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
