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.
First live show outside the USA featuring one-off film pieces and live theatre from the ringleaders of the ‘weird new America’ psych folk explosion.
Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
A recording session for BBC Radio Scotland under the M74 ‘Ski Jump’ extension ramp, a secion of motorway that doesn’t go anywhere, one of several such structures that populate the motorway system in the centre of Glasgow.
