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.
What does it mean to resist seeking assimilation or inclusion within, or let our demands be co-opted by the very systems we seek to dismantle?
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
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.
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
Elizabeth’s writing pulls apart toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify it; working towards an alternative distribution of powers, so that ways of being otherwise can endure.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
