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.
Noise music for the eyes: projectors turned into instruments, B&W film loops into a thrumming riot of colour, motion and sound.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
In the Foyer at the Tramway we will screen a documentary from the Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance 2017 and La Llamada by Eduardo Restrepo Castaño.
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.
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Sachiko’s very simple, pure sine tones and structures. Otomo on double pianos. Filament’s music isn’t composed and it isn’t improvised: it’s a hybrid of the two.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Ten short intimate one-on-one conversations with Robert Softley Gale – We all want to see ourselves reflected in the world around us—in society, in art, in culture… in porn?
