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.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
A multi-media harp and spoken word tribute to the incalculable, the in-deducible, the suspicious static noise that accompanies the voice of truth, and the attempted aberrations in the domain of emergence.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
One-shot sonic portraits of 4 houses, their inhabitants and their relationship to sound, from 2 of the most deep-thinking field-recording artists around.
What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
