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.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
What is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.
