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.
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.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
The second of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme highlights contemporary works.
Goodwin’s writing emanates from the social life of poetry, from a condition of entanglement before historically racially-specific forms of representation. Another word for this emanation is breath.
