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 specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
A new interpretation of Kosugi’s Catch-Wave, producing a cloud of fluctuating, hypnotic drones, in front of a backdrop of projected waves.
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
US percussionist, poet, sound artist and instrument maker performing on self-made instruments constructed from industrial materials such as stainless steel, titanium, PVC plastics and various kinds of pipe.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
