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.
Deliberately blurred drones, absent of definite structure or rhythm, framed in silence and devoid of any distraction from the pure matter of sound.
A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
