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.
A programme that looks at how sound and image can be treated as variants in a collection of ordered objects; at how to create meaning from the similar, and to notice difference.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
Slowly evolving ultra-subtle harmonics and multi-tracked, otherworldly drones that only reveal their true power at high volume.
Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
UNINSTAL was a set of events at Tramway that tested out radical ideas with leading local and international artists. A collection of events (performances, films, installations, walks and talks) about sound and listening.
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
