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.
A conversation between Philip and Moten: how do we read NourbeSe’s anti-narrative poetic lament in Glasgow today, given the city’s role in the history of slavery?
For this one off performance Vibracathedral Orchestra are joined by Matthew Bower and John Godbert from mighty UK heavy/drone/psych free-noise behemoths Skullfower, Sunroof! and Total.
Dave will lead a session created for teenagers and designed to stimulate a supportive environment for artistic exploration through music improvisation.
A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
An audio report for the NATOarts board of directors that seeks to promote global security and stability through the exhibition of works of conceptual art.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
