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.
The Tower performance at KYTN throws into that mix the 70’s fluxus light shows and films of Jeff Perkins and other filmic interventions tuned to their unique frequency.
Patented 60 cycle hums, static pops, and terse electron pinpricks mutated into perfect, post-techno grooves and synaesthesic video
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
NVA asked Arika to curate and programme the sound aspects of their 2007 Half-Life production in Kilmartin Glen. Arika worked with Toshiya Tsunoda, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
