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.
Two-parts Helhesten spit strangled shanties and cracked reeds from under a net of the Glasgow Improv Orchestra’s six-strings and one moustache.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
William cradles, hammers, and rains down blows, plucking and using 2 bows to attack the strings above and below the bridge, all in the service of a fiery and passionate creativity.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
A new interpretation of Kosugi’s Catch-Wave, producing a cloud of fluctuating, hypnotic drones, in front of a backdrop of projected waves.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
