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.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now) host
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
