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.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
A sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue – a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
Taking over the gallery spaces at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the first Kill Your Timid Notion presented a 3 day programme of live immersive experiences and specially curated film programmes.
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?
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
NVA asked Arika to curate and programme the sound aspects of their 2007 Half-Life production in Kilmartin Glen. Arika worked with Toshiya Tsunoda, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
