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.
For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.
A programme of discontinuity between narration, text and image. Including Manual Saiz’s employment of John Malkovich’s Spanish dubbing double and Peter Rose’s absurdly hilarious concrete poetry subtitling chaos.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Power-electronic klutz behaviour indecipherable blasphemies, cuts, bruises and broken microphones by Kovorox Sound head-honcho Lea Cummings.
A double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.
An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.
Discussion: If we approach “care as an event” rather than as a “contract of exchange” then what becomes possible in how we know, care for, and appreciate each other?
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
