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.
Droner responsible for Fordell Research Unit, Muscletusk’s murk manipulator and Metzian concrete-mixer cement international relations and yr heids.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
What is the radical concept at the core of ‘rhythm’, expanded from simply musical or mathematical notions to encompass personal, social, collective rhythms?
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
Create your own badge designs, with collaging, drawings, stickers and more! Whether your badge is playful, political, expressive or just for fun this is a space to create something that feels like you.
The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
A chat, with examples (Zola, H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Horror), about blackness and the sheer stupid thickness of what has no profundity whatsoever.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
