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.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
CCI Sound system: a performance in which new material will be mixed and phased between two huge PA’s, one a precise Meyer system, the other a huge wall of Marshall amps
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?
An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
A three-day celebration surveying all manner of diverse musical activities, which at their core share a basic kinship: one of exploration and the discovery of musical expresssion.
Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage
Camille Sapara Barton author of Tending Grief will facilitate this BIPOC only session around somatics and racial justice.
