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.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
A chat, with examples (Zola, H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Horror), about blackness and the sheer stupid thickness of what has no profundity whatsoever.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Cask-strength electrohypnol/ shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder responsible for recent Tremors blowouts.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A fulcrum to the Japanese noise scene, JOJO Hiroshige has been responsible for much of the explosion of free music coming from Japan in the last 30 years.
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.
