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.
Dual projections of pulsating shards of film, treated in crystallized salts and dyes merge with the whirring of projectors, distilled into particles of sound.
The second edition of the INSTAL festival broadened it’s scope to include performances from Francisco Lopez, Phil Niblock, Stefan Mathieu, Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda and John Wall.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
Location: Around and about the old public library in Easterhouse; disinvested in and left to rot by the council but which was shamelessly, hastily and superficially cleaned by them in expectation of our event.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
