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.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
A conversation and livestream considering a global feminist critique of capital with Silvia Federici, Hortense Spillers and Gayatri C. Spivak.
