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.
Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.
Join Brian as he ruminates on the history of how experimental filmmakers and sound artists have drifted into and taken over galleries in order to show their work.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
A double bill. A simple first person, Dundee-specific tracking shot that approaches the cinema/ screen/ space the film will eventually be shown in and in Brazilian opera house, a fixed camera gazes at a local audience from the stage: a choir, hidden in the orchestra pit, sings and gradually fades to silence.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
An utterly deep introspection told in aching, weeping guitar lines; melodic, simple, always minimal but somehow entirely epic.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
