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.
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
A chill sex worker only breakfast hang, hosted by Scotland for Decrim, with delicious vegan, vegetarian, meaty, gluten free options & fresh coffee. (Both present & past lived experience welcome).
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
