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.
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Introducing and setting intentions for a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves.
A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
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.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
Emotional fantasies, towers of cakes, identity troubles, collapsed distance and time and Samuel R. Delany’s rarely seen 1971 film The Orchid.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
