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.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
HEAVY Japanese super group, featuring the sundown delta blues of Kan Mikami, Toshi Ishizuka’s heavy, time folding drumming and Masayoshi Urabe on sax, harmonica and chains.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.
Birthed from the collective stagger in global consciousness of the late 50’s and 60’s, this programme celebrates epochal, groundbreaking films that all address sound in their own way and that have opened pathways to experimentation.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
