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 almost nothing: re-present (unaltered and arranged by chance) silent family home movies handed down to Flo, (Ken’s wife) and follow them with a “teach yourself Yiddish” cassette tape.
Taking over the gallery spaces at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the first Kill Your Timid Notion presented a 3 day programme of live immersive experiences and specially curated film programmes.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Talk charting the radical history of experimental music in Japan + the lowdown into the careers of many of the artists appearing at MLFC.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
A delicate and detailed walk through the urban and rural landscape around Dundee; a poetic focus on the details found. A performance for 16mm projection and live amplified objects (maybe pine cones, maybe a coke bottle).
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
