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.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
What is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
A series of badly felted lock-ups and garages + multiple locations within the Megastructure – a purpose built town centre in one building, comprising (in the 50’s at least) of housing (never occupied), shops, apartments, a hotel, ice rink, police station and other amenities
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
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 dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
