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.
Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
A new interpretation of Kosugi’s Catch-Wave, producing a cloud of fluctuating, hypnotic drones, in front of a backdrop of projected waves.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
TEST is a collective creative improvising quartet based out of the NYC Underground (figuratively and literally). Their street-hardened, spatial Jazz is riotous and intense: is also makes us think about collective organization, and different ideas of responsibility and liberty.
Andrew Chalk & Christoph Heemann return with their diaphanous, impressionistic drone duo; their slowly evolving and enthralling works flutter and quiver with elegantly restrained, miniature sound events.
