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.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
How do grassroots feminist organisations strategise relationships between mothers, parents, carers and their children based on respect and empowerment, in resistance to the practice of putting children in often the most uncaring of places – care.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
In true reality television style, this in-depth artist talk will tackle all the hardest-hitting questions and juiciest details about care, creative collaboration, and disability justice.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
A cast of pioneering and provocative spirits who exist outside the mainstream, between borders and definitions; a series of events that each explore different aspects of music that doesn’t quite fit any given category. INSTAL 08 included the Self-Cancellation project.
Durational group-mind drone and clatter: bamboo, electronics, the contents of your local ironmongers bin. A 3-hour set from this legendary Japanese improvisation group.
