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 trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
We commissioned Radu Malfatti to write a new piece for the 21-piece string section of the Northern Sinfonia: Music striving to discover the exact point at which sound resonates the clearest amidst long drawn out silences.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
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?
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Three intimate 45 minute sessions, readings of your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
In 2008 we toured our Kill Your Timid Notion festival of experimental sound and image to London, Bristol and Glasgow, bringing audiences a taste of the previous 5 festival editions.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
