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-shot sonic portraits of 4 houses, their inhabitants and their relationship to sound, from 2 of the most deep-thinking field-recording artists around.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Includes: tamed TV snow, video feedback of racing particles, a remake of a polish photogram film destroyed in WWII, a visual and aural representation of Gestalt theory, hole-punched film and Guy Sherwin’s Cycles 3 double-projection.
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
