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.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
