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.
Jarrod Fowler and Christof Migone kick things off with performances involving edible plants, a saw, dandruff, and Christof responding to the prompt: “as far as you can for as long as you can.”
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.
Lo-fidelity sheets of parinirvanic mangled tone get driven into oblivion by two longstanding gurus of the Northern England primitivist noise.
