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.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Fernando thinks that when maths is deep, it should be simple and able to be explained by hand gestures. By embodying ideas, we’re able to more clearly think about their cultural implications.
Each of these films addresses place, landscape or location and the personal reaction to their magical or concrete properties. Watch out for Kren’s structural, throbbing investigation of a forest and Baillie’s intimate and humble essay on a blind guitarist and the relationship between songs of Mexican revolutionaries and the people and places they looked to inspire.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
