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.
Elizabeth’s writing pulls apart toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify it; working towards an alternative distribution of powers, so that ways of being otherwise can endure.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now) host
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.
Goodwin’s writing emanates from the social life of poetry, from a condition of entanglement before historically racially-specific forms of representation. Another word for this emanation is breath.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Transfeminist and revolutionary poetry, voice and timbral abstraction: a sounding and spatialising of reparative sonic and somatic practices that can speak back to violent histories of expropriation and ecocide.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
