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.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
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?
Has neoliberal capitalism locked down social experience? Are our seemingly subjective desires, our identities, pre-packaged by dominating social structures?
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
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.
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 Study Session focused on the thinking of Ailton Krenak – one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement – led by curators and artists Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
A 2-day workshop to deconstruct our classed experiences and the ways in which we reproduce the same class system we fight against, in order to create a stronger, more egalitarian Scottish art sector.
