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.
Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of light emerge, as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Simultaneously, out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
