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.
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
Finnish duo Grönlund Nisunen are known for their extraordinary work fusing incredible sounds with stunning objects in large scale sculptural installations.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
What is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
