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.
In a moment of social exhaustion, we want to ask how we might care for each other differently. We Can’t Live Without Our Lives is a 5-day exploration of care as a form of struggle and resistance, with communities who embody it.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.
