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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.

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The porcelain head of a doll stands out from a black background.

30 September 2020

Not Going Back to Normal

Arika is proud to be one of several arts organisations in Scotland supporting the commissioning of a radical new manifesto, by and for disabled artists working in Scotland.

diagonal design half yellow half black with the text 'Uninstal' across each half

8 – 16 May 2010

Tramway

UNINSTAL

UNINSTAL was a set of events at Tramway that tested out radical ideas with leading local and international artists. A collection of events (performances, films, installations, walks and talks) about sound and listening.

Craig Dworkin standing by a microphone giving a talk

16 May 2010

FACT

Craig Dworkin

Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?

UNINSTAL

A projected image reads "decriminalise sex work" on a red banner. Four people are sat underneath the image on a stage talking with an audience.

19 November 2017

Tramway

Sex, Work, Justice

SWARM

The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist

Tam Dean Burn in a hat reads from a paper into a microphone

12 November 2010

Tramway

Overheard (Performance Part 1) and Festival Introduction

Resonance Radio Orchestra

The first performative part in a game of chance and endurance as actor Tam Dean Burn constantly broadcasts for 24hrs.

INSTAL 10

Central collage image with a version of the strength tarot card saying “ into the future with strength” and a white topless women with blonde hair presented in a 80’s glamour model style, surrounded by a dark power halo and accompanied by a white fluffy kitten. This central image is surrounded by other collaged images featuring policeman climbing a road lollipop, photos tenement housing fronts, and newspaper cutouts with the words “sex boys for sale" and “all major credit cards” All images predominantly red, gold, black and white.

30 July 2026

Collective Art Workshop

Scotland for Decrim

Join Sex Workers For Decrim for a sex worker only collective art workshop and be part of creating a massive visual timeline of sex worker resistance in Scotland.

Pools of light show music stands holding large books

24 February 2012

Tramway

De Musicorum Infelicitate

Esther Ferrer Walter Marchetti

‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness

26 – 27 March 2022

CCA Annex (Online)

A Breath to Follow | Um sopro a se seguir

2 days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil.

Dois dias de discussões e apresentações online de artistes explorando as práticas cosmológicas, decoloniais e sensoriais de coletivoas de arte, dança e música de base negra e indígena no Brasil.