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.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
Conceived of as a dual publication, video cassette and booklet, to be presented as an installation. The content of the videotape is the artist watching television.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything.
