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.
NVA asked Arika to curate and programme the sound aspects of their 2007 Half-Life production in Kilmartin Glen. Arika worked with Toshiya Tsunoda, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
As part of Karrabing’s visit to Scotland, the collective will be hosted for three days in the Isle of Skye by The School of Plural Futures.
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Haunted by the archive of the New Cross Fire, Jay Bernard presents a film and poetry reading that undertakes a queer exploration of black British history, reconstructed from archives and apparent debris.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Gravitational Feel is an engine for intensifying the differentiation of our entanglement, which you continually reprogramme in the mutual rub, shift and lap of its sonic, wooden, steel, textile and human material.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
