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.
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Thuja specialise in a unique and abstract folk music, a devoutly organic tapestry deeply rooted in the sway and bow of nature.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Former street performer, organist, performance artist, circus performer, harpist, accordion player, tree surgeon and tricyclist performing solo.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
