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.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
Black-clad with an ominous aura created by their distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads and raucous mantric jams.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
CCI Sound system: a performance in which new material will be mixed and phased between two huge PA’s, one a precise Meyer system, the other a huge wall of Marshall amps
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
