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.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
A performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.
Inspired by the supernatural horror of H. P. Lovecraft, black metal and a sense of worry as to what constitutes an object, or a world.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Discussion with David Keenan: an author, critic and musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is best known for the reviews and features he has contributed to The Wire.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
