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.
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.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
The first performative part in a game of chance and endurance as actor Tam Dean Burn constantly broadcasts for 24hrs.
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.
Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
