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.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.
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.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in the exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, named after the ‘central region’ of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain’s two hemispheres.
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
As part of Karrabing’s visit to Scotland, the collective will be hosted for three days in the Isle of Skye by The School of Plural Futures.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
The Echo project is an installation as audio guide for a crowd. And at the same time it’s a private conversation: with you, as one of 20 people in a room, a sort of public intimacy.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
