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.
Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
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 meditation on how all of us perform — sometimes reinforcing, sometimes subverting — the shifting categories of gender, sexuality and race.
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
Now a two day festival, INSTAL 04 was borne of a desire to open eyes, challenge audiences and expand musical horizons. This was also the year in which a certain representative from Corwood Industries made his first ever live appearance.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
