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.
Glasgow. Power electronic klutz behaviour by Kovorox sound head-honcho. Bruised bodies and broken microphones.
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Watching films and chatting with Karrabing members about those films: as they attend to the memory and practice of the ancestral present and the ancestral catastrophe that Karrabing and their more-than-human world find themselves facing.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
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.
