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.
The program of composed music including Feldman’s Instruments III, Ligeti’s piece for 100 Metronomes Poeme Sympathetique, and Rebonds B by Iannis Xenakis.
What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
Three intimate 45 minute sessions, readings of your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
An evening of live performances, readings & saucy rococo cakes celebrating the launch of Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
