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.
For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
A community of those without community, for a community to come. A schizo-scenic video-collage of the disturbing ‘normality’ of Moby Dick.
In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.
Location: Around and about the old public library in Easterhouse; disinvested in and left to rot by the council but which was shamelessly, hastily and superficially cleaned by them in expectation of our event.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
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.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
