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.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Transfeminist and revolutionary poetry, voice and timbral abstraction: a sounding and spatialising of reparative sonic and somatic practices that can speak back to violent histories of expropriation and ecocide.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
For this one off performance Vibracathedral Orchestra are joined by Matthew Bower and John Godbert from mighty UK heavy/drone/psych free-noise behemoths Skullfower, Sunroof! and Total.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Philip Jeck creates slowly evolving symphonies that are as much about the crackling hiss of old vinyl as the actual ‘musical’ material.
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
