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?
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
In true reality television style, this in-depth artist talk will tackle all the hardest-hitting questions and juiciest details about care, creative collaboration, and disability justice.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
William cradles, hammers, and rains down blows, plucking and using 2 bows to attack the strings above and below the bridge, all in the service of a fiery and passionate creativity.
What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
