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.
Since the 1960’s Oliverios has had a profound influence on generations of musicians through her work with myth and ritual, improvisation and meditation.
Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
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.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Gravitational Feel is an engine for intensifying the differentiation of our entanglement, which you continually reprogramme in the mutual rub, shift and lap of its sonic, wooden, steel, textile and human material.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
