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.
Kanta is a young Japanese artist with a home-made, short circuited take on electronics and physical phenomena which he uses in performance to produce close circuit systems of audio / video feedback.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
AVVA sees the internal feedback of Toshi’s no-input mixing desk is fed to Billy, and transformed into bright and variegated patters, striations and blooming colour, before being fed back to Toshi and manipulated on route to the PA.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
With lo-fi dreams and high-def humor, Bande brings MC vibes to the day. Interluding music with spoken performance, the live extimacy of Bande’s presence reaches out via emo-techno-bridges.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
The second in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. What does the sharing of vulnerability entail? Can such a sharing inform progressive social relations?
