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.
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
Performances at CCA Glasgow by Keiji Haino, My Cat Is An Alien, Taurpis Tula, Jandek with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
