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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.

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Dawn Kasper in a yellow jacket and bare legs moves equipment
25 February 2012
Tramway

Become What You Are

Dawn Kasper

Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Phil Minton conducts a large choir
22 March 2009
The Arches

Century FC

Phil Minton

A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.

INSTAL 09
Portrait of Marc Baron in black and white
27 February 2010
DCA

Marc Baron

Marc Baron

Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
The porcelain head of a doll stands out from a black background.
30 September 2020

Not Going Back to Normal

Arika is proud to be one of several arts organisations in Scotland supporting the commissioning of a radical new manifesto, by and for disabled artists working in Scotland.

Man with long hair and glasses and headphones sits on a bed singing
18 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 2: Sound

Various Artists Burkhard Stangl Werner Dafeldecker

The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
A man holding a flying v guitar above his head
14 October 2005
The Arches

Black Boned Angel

Black Boned Angel

Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.

INSTAL 05
Projection of a pink and gold form above a man operating another projector
12 December 2004
DCA

La Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine

Metamkine

Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Fred Moten in the middle of speaking, with Fernando Zalamea listening beside
23 November 2019
Tramway

Discussion on Mathopoetics

Fred Moten Fernando Zalamea

A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Instal 04 publicity flyer
16 – 17 October 2004
The Arches

INSTAL 04

Now a two day festival, INSTAL 04 was borne of a desire to open eyes, challenge audiences and expand musical horizons. This was also the year in which a certain representative from Corwood Industries made his first ever live appearance.

Steffen Basho-Junghans backstage standing by a wall
17 October 2004
The Arches

Steffen Basho-Junghans

Steffen Basho-Junghans

Repetitive, mesmerizing rhythmic workouts, to pieces of stark and rigorous introspection, where notes picked and slid in isolation, scatter like mercury around the listener.

INSTAL 04
Jandek on stage wearing a hat & playing an electric guitar
17 October 2004
The Arches

Jandek

Alex Neilson Jandek Richard Youngs

Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.

INSTAL 04
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