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 film installation as both allegory and investigation of The Rockridge Institute and their research into ‘framing’ and the use of metaphor within political discourse.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
Life drawing class for artists of all genders, backgrounds and levels of ability, 18+. Draw strippers and sex workers as they perform their usual club routines, in a different context; from the strip club to the art gallery.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Hartmut led “a workshop in the old-fashioned way of discussion, mutual exploration of ideas and samples; trying out what can be shared and where the fault lines show.”
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
The program of composed music including Feldman’s Instruments III, Ligeti’s piece for 100 Metronomes Poeme Sympathetique, and Rebonds B by Iannis Xenakis.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
