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.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
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?
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
A performed lecture concerned with Renaissance occult (musical) thinkers of the cosmic who put forward the notion of the “disharmony of the world”
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Performances at CCA Glasgow by Keiji Haino, My Cat Is An Alien, Taurpis Tula, Jandek with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
