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.
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.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Bruno’s liberated improvisational approach stretches beyond the lyrical, tough as nails rhythmic bursts and expressive, swinging attack of his drumming.
The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
