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 sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Usurper jamming live in a skip at the site of Bud’s Neill’s Lobey Dosser statue on Woodlands Road.
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 chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Captures the creak and rustle of the forest, with an exhilarating tension let loose in unconfined maniacal and bare-knuckle group thinking.
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
