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.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Acting at the minimum. Each film here substitutes one small thing for another, (ironically) transforming received meanings by the simplest of actions; often kind of funny too.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
The weeks previous TLRS daily radio shows, after-hours conversations, radio booths and special guests reassembled as a live electroacoustic performance.
In 2008 we toured our Kill Your Timid Notion festival of experimental sound and image to London, Bristol and Glasgow, bringing audiences a taste of the previous 5 festival editions.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
