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?
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Has neoliberal capitalism locked down social experience? Are our seemingly subjective desires, our identities, pre-packaged by dominating social structures?
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
