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.
A festival hewn from passions for experimental music, film and visual art and for a passion in figuring out how they can relate to, cross-fertilise and inspire and each other.
Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.
A meditation on how all of us perform — sometimes reinforcing, sometimes subverting — the shifting categories of gender, sexuality and race.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
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 Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.
Screening of films by Duvet Brothers, David Critchley, David Hall, John Latham, Judith Goddard, Mike Leggett, Tony Sinden
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.
