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.
Join Brian as he ruminates on the history of how experimental filmmakers and sound artists have drifted into and taken over galleries in order to show their work.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
A meditation on how all of us perform — sometimes reinforcing, sometimes subverting — the shifting categories of gender, sexuality and race.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
I wanna be with you everywhere is an everywhere gathering envisioned for and by disability communities and anyone who wants to get with us. IWBWYE returns to Performance Space and any space on June 21 for an outdoor pop-up and hybridized event.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Usurper jamming live in a skip at the site of Bud’s Neill’s Lobey Dosser statue on Woodlands Road.
Haunted by the archive of the New Cross Fire, Jay Bernard presents a film and poetry reading that undertakes a queer exploration of black British history, reconstructed from archives and apparent debris.
The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.
