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.
Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Birthed from the collective stagger in global consciousness of the late 50’s and 60’s, this programme celebrates epochal, groundbreaking films that all address sound in their own way and that have opened pathways to experimentation.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Three intense solo performances for drums (both played and screamed through), cymbal, voice, credit card, bird whistle, and guitar amplifier/leads.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
“Introduction to Protactile Theory” is a legendary seminar that facilitator John Lee Clark has designed to bring diverse communities into conversation with the Protactile movement.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
