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.
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
