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.
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Sound as it is endured by space and the body: 15 participants lie face down and pound the floor with a microphone one thousand times, each person choosing their own rhythm and intensity.
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
One of the most startling cinematic debuts on record, The Flicker is more a hallucination than a film, an out of body experience and riotous celebration of visual harmonics frequencies. An experiment in perception, come with your mind and eyes open.
Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
