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.
Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.
Two figureheads of the minimalist electronica pulse, Ikeda and Nicolai have been responsible for some of the most innovative and ground-breaking music of the last decade, redefining experimental electronica.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Inspired by the supernatural horror of H. P. Lovecraft, black metal and a sense of worry as to what constitutes an object, or a world.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
The Scottish based Paragon Ensemble has commissioned David Fennessy to compose music for Instal, which will be performed during the evening.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
