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.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Noise music for the eyes: projectors turned into instruments, B&W film loops into a thrumming riot of colour, motion and sound.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
Experience a sense of being in the world, in a specific space and time. Including Jeanne Liotta’s recordings of the ionosphere and Walter Ruttmann’s radical 35mm precursor to musique concrète.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Includes: a £20 note, stock fluctuations, an examination of words in the video medium, a linguistic challenge for your mind, a frame by frame dissection 50 words, shop front poetry, image and language head to head and newspapers under the microscope.
Includes: a classic of innovative computer graphics, ex-pat Scot McLaren on form, a riotous psychedelic oil show with a Soft Machine accompaniment, subtle manipulation of data feedback, a colourful road movie and a reworking of a lost Paul Sharits film.
