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.
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Includes: a classic of innovative computer graphics, ex-pat Scot McLaren on form, a riotous psychedelic oil show with a Soft Machine accompaniment, subtle manipulation of data feedback, a colourful road movie and a reworking of a lost Paul Sharits film.
Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
