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.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
