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.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
Underlying radical transfeminism, as an urgent critique of binary essentialism and fixed identities, is the call for a new kind of thinking that can move between and integrate the truths of all lives in their transformations.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
What does it mean to resist seeking assimilation or inclusion within, or let our demands be co-opted by the very systems we seek to dismantle?
