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.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
A Study Session focused on the thinking of Ailton Krenak – one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement – led by curators and artists Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
A glance at both analogue and digital processes; the clarity and precision of digital colour or the yawning, endless depth of dye and emulsion, our programme celebrates how both approaches revel in colour, saturation, hue and tone.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
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.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
