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 chat with Rashad about the communist, conceptual methodology that informs his ground-breaking synthetic music—a form of speculative sonic fiction writing to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen’s trio with percussionist Andrew Barker; incessantly driving forward through sweat-drenched bursts of pure ecstatic freedom.
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.
A programme that looks at how sound and image can be treated as variants in a collection of ordered objects; at how to create meaning from the similar, and to notice difference.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
