30 September 2020
Not Going Back to Normal
Arika is proud to be one of several arts organisations in Scotland supporting the commissioning of a radical new manifesto, by and for disabled artists working in Scotland.
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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12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Sanjah: Kan Mikami, Masayoshi Urabe & Toshiaki Ishizuka
Kan Mikami Masayoshi Urabe Toshiaki Ishizuka
HEAVY Japanese super group, featuring the sundown delta blues of Kan Mikami, Toshi Ishizuka’s heavy, time folding drumming and Masayoshi Urabe on sax, harmonica and chains.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
15 April 2015
Tramway
Work Care Class 1 – Care & Work
Howard Slater
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
28 February 2010
DCA
Film Programme 6: Production
Ken Jacobs Various Artists
The production of moving image (film) by the mechanically, unfalteringly repetitive manipulation of mass-produced materials (film), in order to explore three different allegorical representations (films) of repetitive human actions and labour under capital.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
13 October 2006
The Arches
Oshiri Penpenz
Oshiri Penpenz
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
INSTAL 06
1 December 2002
The Arches
John Wall
John Wall
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
INSTAL 02
27 September 2014
Tramway
Speculum Orum
M Lamar
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
10 October 2008
DCA
Man With a Mirror
Guy Sherwin
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
21 April 2013
Tramway
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez
A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
15 April 2007
DCA
Lost Sound: Graeme Miller + John Smith
Various Artists
Ever wondered about the roadside festoons which are the innards of discarded cassette tapes? All will be revealed in this methodical and insightful documentary by UK luminary John Smith and sound artist cohort Graeme Miller.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Peter Evans
Peter Evans
A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
22 October 2016
Tramway
#BlackExcellenceTour
CeCe McDonald Joshua Allen
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp