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 specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Copying without Copying is 3 evenings of events that are about what happens when we speak, or when we hear someone speak on our behalf, when we share a collective moment of hearing and maybe understanding.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
