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.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
Two-parts Helhesten spit strangled shanties and cracked reeds from under a net of the Glasgow Improv Orchestra’s six-strings and one moustache.
Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee
A bodiless treatise on narration, bored speakers, audience misbehaviour and police megaphones, but: is anybody listening?
