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.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Ubuntu Women Shelter, National Ugly Mugs and the Sex Workers Union warmly invite you to a generative conversation (and Q&A) about the needs and rights of migrant sex workers in Scotland.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
The site of the former Abbeyhill Station on the 1903 Leith branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith railway, overgrown and leading to as yet un-regenerated ‘wasteland’; taxi’s for 80 people, each instructed to take different routes between locations and; a slice of land concealed behind corporate business park branding off the Wester Approach Rd, apparently of no conceivable use and named ‘Chateaux de Scum’ by those who use it anyway.
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
