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.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
A slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
Location: between: the abandoned site of Parker House (ex-council office building) that became a student accommodation regeneration project, off the Dudhope roundabout; Bell Street Car Park entrance ramp and; the awkward (and otherwise used/ used otherwise) space left over between the back of Tesco’s and DW Sports on the Murraygate.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Beyond time, colorlines, ability, and sexuality, a movement exploration into what it means to see and be seen, how hearing contrast with what is actually being heard.
