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 voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Deliberately blurred drones, absent of definite structure or rhythm, framed in silence and devoid of any distraction from the pure matter of sound.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
A recording session for BBC Radio Scotland under the M74 ‘Ski Jump’ extension ramp, a secion of motorway that doesn’t go anywhere, one of several such structures that populate the motorway system in the centre of Glasgow.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
