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.
In the Foyer at the Tramway we will screen a documentary from the Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance 2017 and La Llamada by Eduardo Restrepo Castaño.
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything.
Black-clad with an ominous aura created by their distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads and raucous mantric jams.
Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
