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.
A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Inhabiting a different kind of energy, Ueinzz’s open rehearsals reveal a glimpse into their ongoing daily theatrical modes of caring – multiplying the ways in which their plays are meant to be felt, rather than understood.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
The 2006 INSTAL festival saw a broad selection of artists that included Blood Stereo and Ludo Mich, Ellen Fullman and Sean Meehan, Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad and a specially created performance by Maryanne Amacher.
