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.
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?
Ecstatic, scalding and ludicrously heavy, nobody matches Incapacitants for live noise energy. One of the most exhilarating live acts in underground music.
Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?
A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
