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.
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
Everyday objects and materials (rubber bands, paper, a sink, microphones) disabused of their inertia and made to speak for themselves in a kind of focusing in on the tiny, repetitive, almost unobserved (sonic/ visual) potential of everyday things put into motion.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
A performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.
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 celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
