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.
One of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation discusses practices of Indigenous Resurgence drawn from Nishnaabeg poetic knowledge.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.
A performed lecture concerned with Renaissance occult (musical) thinkers of the cosmic who put forward the notion of the “disharmony of the world”
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.
