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 glance at both analogue and digital processes; the clarity and precision of digital colour or the yawning, endless depth of dye and emulsion, our programme celebrates how both approaches revel in colour, saturation, hue and tone.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
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?
A double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
In 2008 we toured our Kill Your Timid Notion festival of experimental sound and image to London, Bristol and Glasgow, bringing audiences a taste of the previous 5 festival editions.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A film as a translation of Monique Wittig’s landmark feminist novel Les Guérillères, in which a plural protagonist of militant feminists inhabit a fantastical, enigmatic and hallucinatory miasmatic space-time of post Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
