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.
Do ideas emerging from particle physics help to re-think of blackness as a mode of life in which it’s possible to practice difference without separation?
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
What’s the relationship between the eternal hum of the oceanic beloved and the persistence of vorticity in fluid dynamics? And how does Alice Coltrane’s harp help us stay there?
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
One-shot sonic portraits of 4 houses, their inhabitants and their relationship to sound, from 2 of the most deep-thinking field-recording artists around.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
