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.
The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.
Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
A concrete walkway ending in mid air, a ridiculously tight squeeze between three office buildings and various other sites of Labour politician and council leader T. Dan Smith’s modernist regeneration projects and ‘slum clearances’ of the 1950’s and 60’s.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Two bottomless brunch writing workshops—with readings—speculating the relationship between space, infrastructure, technologies and sex.
