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.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in the exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, named after the ‘central region’ of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain’s two hemispheres.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
