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 multi-media harp and spoken word tribute to the incalculable, the in-deducible, the suspicious static noise that accompanies the voice of truth, and the attempted aberrations in the domain of emergence.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
AMM have undoubtedly been among the most important contributors to the UK free improv scene for nearly 40 years and we are extremely proud to be able to be working with such distinguished musicians who still rarely play live in the UK.
This programme takes human subjects as the focus for sound and image construction. And it includes a couple of masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.
