21 – 23 August 2026
Hard Labour
All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy! Workshops, talks and visual art, hosted by Scotland for Decrim.
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.
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5 – 15 July 2007
Union Terrace Gardens
Bell Street Car Park
The old public library in Easterhouse
A concrete walkway ending in mid air
The Megastructure
The former Abbeyhill Station
Shadowed Spaces
There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.
20 April 2014
Club Escuelitas
The Road to Mastery Rumble Ball
Various Artists
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Master Ballstar Weekend
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Polwechsel
Burkhard Beins John Butcher Martin Brandlmayr Michael Moser Werner Dafeldecker
With a signature spartan sound and long term preoccupation in structural tactics (subtle shifts in density, drawn out stasis) Polwechsel blur the boundaries between individual instruments.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
21 April 2013
Tramway
Zong!
M. NourbeSe Philip
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
13 November 2010
Tramway
Steven Anderson
Steven Anderson
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
INSTAL 10
18 November 2017
Tramway
Every Book is Dead
Hal Duncan LAPS
Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
11 March 2022
Online
Gesturing to What is Possible: Drugs Users Supporting Each Other
Peter Krykant Aura Roig Juan Fernández Ochoa
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Mutual Aid
5 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
What is the Sound of Freedom?
Fred Moten Ultra-red
For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
A survey is a process of listening
15 February 2008
Stereo
Michiyo Yagi
Michiyo Yagi
Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.
INSTAL 08
14 April 2007
DCA
Andrew Lampert with Steve Beresford, Okkyung Lee & Mark Saunders
Andrew Lampert Okkyung Lee Steve Beresford
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
26 February 2012
Tramway
All the Colours of the Dark, Except Black
Evan Calder Williams
A chat, with examples (Zola, H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Horror), about blackness and the sheer stupid thickness of what has no profundity whatsoever.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness