Ailton Krenak wears a dark blue shirt and sits in a chair in front of a grey background.
Video Interview, Nov 2024

To Give Up This World, To Have Many Others – In Conversation with Ailton Krenak

Ailton Krenak (by video) Denise Ferreira da Silva Amilcar Packer

A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Booklets with black covers and white text that reads In Our Lifetime
Publication, Nov 2024

IN OUR LIFETIME – A New Anti-Imperialist Resource

Hussein Mitha

IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
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AMM & Malcolm Le Grice

Malcolm Le Grice AMM

One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades

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Arika

Arika is a political arts organisation concerned with supporting connections between artistic production and social change.

We think of art as a relationship that constantly unfolds in the realm of the common, a process and a continuum. We see our role in this unfolding relationship as celebrating and supporting connections between art and social change. When we say art, we mean the ways we sing and dance together, the ways we listen and want to be heard, how we look and hope to be seen, how we think of our bodies and how we move through space, how we feel and want to be felt, for example.

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Denise Ferreria da Silva sits on stage whilst delivering a study session to a large audience seated around her

▴ 'Corpus Infinitum' study session with Denise Ferreira da Silva at Arika's Episode 10: A Means Without End at Tramway in Glasgow on Thursday 21st November 2019

a room full of people standing in a big huddle, everyone is holding a massive, tangled bunch of red wool which seems to be connecting and entangling everyone.

▴ 'Ueinzz Crossings' workshop with Ueinzz Theatre Company at Arika's Episode 7: We Can't Live Without Our Lives at Tramway, Glasgow on Friday 17th April 2015

a seated workshop participant holding a piece of paper with text written on it. the text reads "Can we refuse power's grasp and still remain within the domain of the human? If we refuse that which has been refused to us - the human - where do we go from there? (singularity is not exceptionality).

▴ 'Blackness, Animality and the Unsovereign' workshop with Che Gossett at Arika's Episode 8: Refuse Powers' Grasp at Tramway in Glasgow on Sunday 23rd October 2016

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▴ Party and Unity Fundraiser at Kinning Park Complex as part of Arika's Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist in Glasgow on Friday 17th November 2017

Archive

Explore the archive

The Archive is a space to share the documentation of our work, over 1,000 events from the past 20+ years!

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Episodes

A key part of our programming, Episodes explore the interlinked nature of aesthetics and social organising, through public events, investigating interlinked themes and contradictions, which develop from one Episode to the next.
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Field | Land

This theme presents work that might range from field recordings of plants or protests, meditations on land and politics, site specific performances and so on. A starting point for browsing this theme could be checking out the documentation from Ashley Hunt’s performed film/documentary about Hurricane Katrina that was presented at Episode 3: Copying without Copying.

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Sex Worker Organising

This collection brings together projects and events from our archive related to sex worker organising and the decriminalisation of sex work.

Artists & Collaborators

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We collaborate with filmmakers, performers, dancers, musicians, philosophers, activists, community organisers, educators, academics, and writers.