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.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Listening to people listening to their own homes. Musicians and actors will listen back to recordings made in local peoples homes on headphones, and interpret/ translate what they are hearing.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test. A game of chance. Constantly broadcasting live, actor Tam Dean Burn will leave Tramway at the start of INSTAL and walk away from it, in an ever increasing spiral, for a day. Then he’ll walk back.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.
