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.
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
A kind of audience activating, structured film guessing game in the manipulation of time, sound and image. “At 11:15, weiners. At 21:05, pornography. At 23:30, a duet. Watch the Clock.”
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
