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 testimony to poverty from Chris’s own experiences, and an invitation to engage with an all too typical situation and context through a kind of imaginary listening.
The Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan, [EXIAS-J] are a loose collective of musicians and dilettantes who seem to represent an entire and self sufficient scene in one band.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
A conversation of intergenerational trans-resistance and anti-racist fierceness between two of the most inspiring public speakers we know.
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
A changing pool of people (40 or so at a time – artists, audiences, etc) talk for 90 minutes in a simultaneous series of open-ended round-table discussions, structured like speed dating, and mixed live as both a concert and for radio broadcast.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
