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.
The second of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme highlights contemporary works.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
