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.
Performing with hand built radio transmitters, which react to interference in the atmosphere and the electrical impedance of his hands, his radio art is a form of social practice; a statement in opposition to mass media.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
A whistle stop tour of visual and material culture that has anchored the sex workers rights movement through the decades until today.
Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.
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.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
A three-day celebration surveying all manner of diverse musical activities, which at their core share a basic kinship: one of exploration and the discovery of musical expresssion.
Mirror and Phantom Engineer performing an improvised soundtrack to Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 horror film prototype, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages.
Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
