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 Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything.
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.
Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.
60 minutes of hard ass minimal film, projected onto a weather balloon and accompanied by the inspired poetic rant of a visionary Frenchman.
A whistle stop tour of visual and material culture that has anchored the sex workers rights movement through the decades until today.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
