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 confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival
Ecstatic, scalding and ludicrously heavy, nobody matches Incapacitants for live noise energy. One of the most exhilarating live acts in underground music.
Tell Me About It creates a space for direct one-to-one conversations with people who habitually find others (filmmakers, politicians, journalists) speaking on their behalf… In partnership with Edinburgh Art Festival.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
