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.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
Taking over the gallery spaces at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the first Kill Your Timid Notion presented a 3 day programme of live immersive experiences and specially curated film programmes.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
A 2-day workshop to deconstruct our classed experiences and the ways in which we reproduce the same class system we fight against, in order to create a stronger, more egalitarian Scottish art sector.
Stripping back the domesticated ‘meaning’ of (everyday, mundane, kitchen) tools to reveal “a lexicon of rage and frustration.” Plus an allegorical use of mundane, everyday things as an examination of how meaning is constructed in film.
