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.
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Usurper jamming live in a skip at the site of Bud’s Neill’s Lobey Dosser statue on Woodlands Road.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Dual projections of pulsating shards of film, treated in crystallized salts and dyes merge with the whirring of projectors, distilled into particles of sound.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
The Echo project is an installation as audio guide for a crowd. And at the same time it’s a private conversation: with you, as one of 20 people in a room, a sort of public intimacy.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
