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.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.
