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.
In a moment of social exhaustion, we want to ask how we might care for each other differently. We Can’t Live Without Our Lives is a 5-day exploration of care as a form of struggle and resistance, with communities who embody it.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
Join Scot-PEP, SWARM and Decrim Now for a day of panel discussions focusing on: sex worker’s labour rights, how decriminalisation can help in the struggle for sex worker safety, sex work & migration with a film screening of Crossings.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
AMM have undoubtedly been among the most important contributors to the UK free improv scene for nearly 40 years and we are extremely proud to be able to be working with such distinguished musicians who still rarely play live in the UK.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
