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.
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, the programme includes (in London at least) a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia) with a live narration by Michael Snow.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
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.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
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.
