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 panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Glasgow. Power electronic klutz behaviour by Kovorox sound head-honcho. Bruised bodies and broken microphones.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.
