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.
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Glasgow. Free-playing quartet of bass/ cello/ voice from The Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and Age Of Wire & String.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?
