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 mixture of investigation groups, live performances, screenings and installations at DCA; the festival looked to strip back music, sound, film and moving image to their core ideas and explore them with artists and audiences.
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
