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.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Glasgow. Free-playing quartet of bass/ cello/ voice from The Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and Age Of Wire & String.
Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
