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 temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A 2-day workshop to deconstruct our classed experiences and the ways in which we reproduce the same class system we fight against, in order to create a stronger, more egalitarian Scottish art sector.
Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.
