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 loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Everyday objects and materials (rubber bands, paper, a sink, microphones) disabused of their inertia and made to speak for themselves in a kind of focusing in on the tiny, repetitive, almost unobserved (sonic/ visual) potential of everyday things put into motion.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Giants of the Japanese avant-rock scene Ruins are a hardcore prog rock bass + drums duo led by drummer extraordinaire Tatsuya Yoshida and joined in Dundee by Sasaki Hisashi.
Dual projections of pulsating shards of film, treated in crystallized salts and dyes merge with the whirring of projectors, distilled into particles of sound.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Disused railway turning circle at east end of Union Terrace Gardens, a historically public space at the centre of a regeneration land-grab for the private gain of a local petro-chemical magnate.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
