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.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
An informal conversation, over breakfast, about how abolition and movement work structures Mijke and Nat’s approach to transfeminism, ahead of their new book Trans Femme Futures.
Usurper jamming live in a skip at the site of Bud’s Neill’s Lobey Dosser statue on Woodlands Road.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
A bodiless treatise on narration, bored speakers, audience misbehaviour and police megaphones, but: is anybody listening?
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
