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.
Performances of compositions by Jean-Luc Guionnet and others, with Julia Letitia Scott, Iain Campbell F-W, Neil Davidson, Fritz Welch, Liene Rozite, Emilia Beatriz.
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.
Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
Quartet improvisation by Klaus Filip – laptop, Radu Malfatti – trombone, Sean Meehan – snare & cymbals, Taku Unami – rice and dish.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
