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.
Do ideas emerging from particle physics help to re-think of blackness as a mode of life in which it’s possible to practice difference without separation?
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Dir. Nicolas Philibert
Documentary of La Borde clinic in France and its radical politics of experimentation, in which residents and staff reciprocate in a kind of entanglement, an opening up amongst themselves.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.
