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.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Durational group-mind drone and clatter: bamboo, electronics, the contents of your local ironmongers bin. A 3-hour set from this legendary Japanese improvisation group.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of light emerge, as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Simultaneously, out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
The Truth and Lies book project emerges as part of a rising tide of sex worker art and organised struggle to end criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work.
Investigating the border between the audible and the visible means looking at the margins, the edges of creativity where artists test out new boundaries and define them anew.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
