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.
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.
Investigating the border between the audible and the visible means looking at the margins, the edges of creativity where artists test out new boundaries and define them anew.
The first INSTAL festival (programmed by Barry Esson of Arika and Tiernan Kelly) featured a line-up including Robert Lippock, Philip Jeck, Fennesz, Paragon Ensemble, Icebreaker International, Defaalt and Rhomboi.
