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.
John Mullarkey sets in a wider context our understanding of Alain Badiou and Francois Laruelle, two of the most radical philosophers in Europe today.
Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.
What does it mean to resist seeking assimilation or inclusion within, or let our demands be co-opted by the very systems we seek to dismantle?
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
4 days of performances, discussions, workshops, screenings with mutant dancers, prison abolitionist poets, transfeminist revolutionaries, haunted noise, science fiction, sex worker resistance, crip erotics, radical pornography and militant fiction.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
