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.
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.
A sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue – a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
