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 public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
A conversation between Philip and Moten: how do we read NourbeSe’s anti-narrative poetic lament in Glasgow today, given the city’s role in the history of slavery?
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
Opening with one of the most memorable shots ever filmed, and screened a year after the initial successes of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Too Soon, Too Late is a search for the traces left on the landscape of past revolutions in France and Egypt.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
