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.
One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest
Three workshops lead up to an open invitation to improvise with the festival as concert. The last four hours of the Sunday 14 at Instal 10 were devoted to presentations devised during the three workshops. The material conditions (time, space, facilities…) were the instruments. From there anything could happen.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Talk charting the radical history of experimental music in Japan + the lowdown into the careers of many of the artists appearing at MLFC.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
