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.
Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
How do grassroots feminist organisations strategise relationships between mothers, parents, carers and their children based on respect and empowerment, in resistance to the practice of putting children in often the most uncaring of places – care.
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Jandek performing at the Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas with Juan Garcia, Nick Hennies and Chris Cogburn.
