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 different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Radu plays a trombone, Klaus creates pure sine waves: they sound on their own, or sometimes together and often with considerable space and silence.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
A performed film lecture exploring how the ‘Rumberas’ of Caribbean cinema of the 40’s and 50’s subverted demeaning images of themselves through dance, sound and a sociality that insisted on blackness as being a cultural performance, not simply due to skin colour.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
