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.
What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?
Ten short intimate one-on-one conversations with Robert Softley Gale – We all want to see ourselves reflected in the world around us—in society, in art, in culture… in porn?
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
