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 festival hewn from passions for experimental music, film and visual art and for a passion in figuring out how they can relate to, cross-fertilise and inspire and each other.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
Patented 60 cycle hums, static pops, and terse electron pinpricks mutated into perfect, post-techno grooves and synaesthesic video
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
