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.
Beyond time, colorlines, ability, and sexuality, a movement exploration into what it means to see and be seen, how hearing contrast with what is actually being heard.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
Captures the creak and rustle of the forest, with an exhilarating tension let loose in unconfined maniacal and bare-knuckle group thinking.
We’ll look at the language and politics of what gets ‘mental health’ and consider more holistic understandings of experiences that honour the connection between mind/body/soul, and that acknowledge social and political context.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Lo-fidelity sheets of parinirvanic mangled tone get driven into oblivion by two longstanding gurus of the Northern England primitivist noise.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
