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.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Droner responsible for Fordell Research Unit, Muscletusk’s murk manipulator and Metzian concrete-mixer cement international relations and yr heids.
A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.
Glasgow. Free-playing quartet of bass/ cello/ voice from The Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and Age Of Wire & String.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
