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.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Organised by Twiggy Pucci Garcon and Pony Zion, The Masters Ball focuses on the work of 50 individuals designated within the scene as ‘masters’ in their respective performance categories, which include Vogue, Runway, and Face.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
The Echo project is an installation as audio guide for a crowd. And at the same time it’s a private conversation: with you, as one of 20 people in a room, a sort of public intimacy.
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
