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.
Taking over the gallery spaces at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the first Kill Your Timid Notion presented a 3 day programme of live immersive experiences and specially curated film programmes.
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Includes: a £20 note, stock fluctuations, an examination of words in the video medium, a linguistic challenge for your mind, a frame by frame dissection 50 words, shop front poetry, image and language head to head and newspapers under the microscope.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
