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.
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Edinburgh. Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga’s first lady of noise.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
Radical transfeminism aims to hold the space for finding relations between the ruins of the everyday. Emerging from the debris, spaces for politics find form as poetics to carry understandings, actions and be/longings.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
