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.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Arika is working in partnership with Decriminalised Futures on a multi year collaboration featuring multiple creative projects exploring sex worker lives, experiences and movement struggles.
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Investigating the border between the audible and the visible means looking at the margins, the edges of creativity where artists test out new boundaries and define them anew.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.
