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.
Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival
A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Two-parts Helhesten spit strangled shanties and cracked reeds from under a net of the Glasgow Improv Orchestra’s six-strings and one moustache.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
