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 collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Patented 60 cycle hums, static pops, and terse electron pinpricks mutated into perfect, post-techno grooves and synaesthesic video
With a signature spartan sound and long term preoccupation in structural tactics (subtle shifts in density, drawn out stasis) Polwechsel blur the boundaries between individual instruments.
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
