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.
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
HEAVY Japanese super group, featuring the sundown delta blues of Kan Mikami, Toshi Ishizuka’s heavy, time folding drumming and Masayoshi Urabe on sax, harmonica and chains.
Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
