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.
Some suggestions of ways in to exploring this theme could be Hortense Spillers’ conversation with Denise Ferreria da Silva on fleshliness and bodiliness and the From Subjection to Subjection discussion with Reina Gossett, Charlene Sinclair and Saidiya Hartman or Mujeres Creando throwing eggs in their Recipes to Change Society provocation.
A rare conversation with Leda, who is the leading philosopher of Black Theatre in Brazil, exploring the specificities of its aesthetic, theoretical, and poetic intersections, and connection with African cultures, rituals, and philosophies.
A landmark of militant cinema, bringing together drawings collected by Franz Fanon, alongside testimony from, and filmed portraits of children recounting French state violence during the Algerian War of Independence.
A conversation between preeminent Palestinian feminist, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and poet and theorist David Lloyd. Nadera has coined two incredibly profound concepts to understand Palestinian life today. Ashlaa’—the violent fracturing of Palestinian bodies and lamlameh—the defiant collecting of a loved one’s body.
Where has art stood in the Nakba’s perpetration? The Nakba in the Room is part of a response and a search for an exit from complicity; improvised, wrestled and unmade in the same time of its viewing.
Lara explodes the naïve claim to neutrality of normative psychiatric care. Her concept of ‘psychic intrusions’ helps to identify the ways power seeks to mould the consciousness of the people it subjugates. Her notion of ‘psychic militancy’ maps the resistance to such attempts.
David is a poet, playwright, writer and a member of the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Hanine is a leading Palestinian scholar, who writes about European antisemitism, settler colonialism and religion. They’ll talk about the history of Zionism, Europe, states, individuation and solidarity.
All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy! Workshops, talks and visual art, hosted by Scotland for Decrim.
An excavation of the 1805 Lock Hospital in Glasgow. Its official function was to support ‘unfortunate females with venereal disease’, but really what happened was that women and girls were marched in, experimented on, and often never released.
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs
Join Sex Workers For Decrim for a sex worker only collective art workshop and be part of creating a massive visual timeline of sex worker resistance in Scotland.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.