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 testimony to poverty from Chris’s own experiences, and an invitation to engage with an all too typical situation and context through a kind of imaginary listening.
4 days of performances, discussions, workshops, screenings with mutant dancers, prison abolitionist poets, transfeminist revolutionaries, haunted noise, science fiction, sex worker resistance, crip erotics, radical pornography and militant fiction.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
Edinburgh. Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga’s first lady of noise.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
