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.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
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 conversation and livestream considering a global feminist critique of capital with Silvia Federici, Hortense Spillers and Gayatri C. Spivak.
Radu plays a trombone, Klaus creates pure sine waves: they sound on their own, or sometimes together and often with considerable space and silence.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
This closing session will be a space for reflection and feedback. We can discuss ways we can share what we’ve learned and explored with our wider communities. We can talk about if we want to do more sessions and /or projects together.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
