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 multi-media harp and spoken word tribute to the incalculable, the in-deducible, the suspicious static noise that accompanies the voice of truth, and the attempted aberrations in the domain of emergence.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
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.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
A double bill of Morgan Fisher films that ask what can be achieved by a simple structural method of commenting on scraps of 35mm film, re-shot on 16mm film and what happens to meaning (if anything) when ‘insert shots’ are relieved of their original duty of providing crucial plot development for a variety of other movies?
