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.
Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
A fulcrum to the Japanese noise scene, JOJO Hiroshige has been responsible for much of the explosion of free music coming from Japan in the last 30 years.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
A new interpretation of Kosugi’s Catch-Wave, producing a cloud of fluctuating, hypnotic drones, in front of a backdrop of projected waves.
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
