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 day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
