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.
An informal conversation, over breakfast, about how abolition and movement work structures Mijke and Nat’s approach to transfeminism, ahead of their new book Trans Femme Futures.
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
Real-time video feedback loops submerged in laminal sheets of sound soaked in gauzy timbral detail and multi-valenced, buzzing overtones.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Edinburgh. Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga’s first lady of noise.
A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.
