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.
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.
Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.
Finnish duo Grönlund Nisunen are known for their extraordinary work fusing incredible sounds with stunning objects in large scale sculptural installations.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Three workshops lead up to an open invitation to improvise with the festival as concert. The last four hours of the Sunday 14 at Instal 10 were devoted to presentations devised during the three workshops. The material conditions (time, space, facilities…) were the instruments. From there anything could happen.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
