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 mixture of investigation groups, live performances, screenings and installations at DCA; the festival looked to strip back music, sound, film and moving image to their core ideas and explore them with artists and audiences.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.
The Cube is a 6 hour performed installation in which sound and image are treated as independent but equal, where musicians and filmmakers sit alongside each other, improvise to and feed off both projected image and amplified and acoustic sound.
