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.
Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
Real-time video feedback loops submerged in laminal sheets of sound soaked in gauzy timbral detail and multi-valenced, buzzing overtones.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
Reveling in the geometric, mathematical and perceptual relationship between sound and form, this programme features a landmark work of experimental film in Kubelka’s Arnulf Rainer; a complex, enduring and expressive of structuralist or flicker films.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
