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.
I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.
Kylie Minoise Vs Nackt Insecten feedback/ vocal physical threat ‘vs’ ecstatic electronic cloudbursts
The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.
A performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
A film installation as both allegory and investigation of The Rockridge Institute and their research into ‘framing’ and the use of metaphor within political discourse.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
