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 system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
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?
Elizabeth’s writing pulls apart toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify it; working towards an alternative distribution of powers, so that ways of being otherwise can endure.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
One of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation discusses practices of Indigenous Resurgence drawn from Nishnaabeg poetic knowledge.
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.
