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.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
Taking over the gallery spaces at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the first Kill Your Timid Notion presented a 3 day programme of live immersive experiences and specially curated film programmes.
A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
