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.
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Coffee, Croissants & Massage – a welcoming breakfast for all with massage by qualified massage therapists present to give hand & head massages.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.
