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.
Ex-Decaer Pinga and CKDH rodeo queens; regular ladynoise hoedown gets gatecrashed by sonic chunder-huffing remedial clatter boys.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?
Offering a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves. Expect fire and a little bit of smoke. Concluding with a D/deaf centered social space with conversational interpreters available for those who do not speak ASL.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
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.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
In the Foyer at the Tramway we will screen a documentary from the Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance 2017 and La Llamada by Eduardo Restrepo Castaño.
