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.
Three (thankfully short) chats wherein we try and get at what’s eating us with regards to experimental music, and what we think might be worth salvaging.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
A 2-day workshop to deconstruct our classed experiences and the ways in which we reproduce the same class system we fight against, in order to create a stronger, more egalitarian Scottish art sector.
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
