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.
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
The Cube is a 6 hour performed installation in which sound and image are treated as independent but equal, where musicians and filmmakers sit alongside each other, improvise to and feed off both projected image and amplified and acoustic sound.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
