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.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
What is the radical concept at the core of ‘rhythm’, expanded from simply musical or mathematical notions to encompass personal, social, collective rhythms?
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
Jarrod Fowler and Christof Migone kick things off with performances involving edible plants, a saw, dandruff, and Christof responding to the prompt: “as far as you can for as long as you can.”
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
A conversation of intergenerational trans-resistance and anti-racist fierceness between two of the most inspiring public speakers we know.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
The production of moving image (film) by the mechanically, unfalteringly repetitive manipulation of mass-produced materials (film), in order to explore three different allegorical representations (films) of repetitive human actions and labour under capital.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
