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.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Free-jazz chat with Sabir Mateen, Daniel Cater, Andrew Barker – hosted by Byron Coley.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
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.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
