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.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Listening to people listening to their own homes. Musicians and actors will listen back to recordings made in local peoples homes on headphones, and interpret/ translate what they are hearing.
Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Jarrod Fowler and Christof Migone kick things off with performances involving edible plants, a saw, dandruff, and Christof responding to the prompt: “as far as you can for as long as you can.”
Deliberately blurred drones, absent of definite structure or rhythm, framed in silence and devoid of any distraction from the pure matter of sound.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
