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.
The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
A testimony to poverty from Chris’s own experiences, and an invitation to engage with an all too typical situation and context through a kind of imaginary listening.
Andrew Chalk & Christoph Heemann return with their diaphanous, impressionistic drone duo; their slowly evolving and enthralling works flutter and quiver with elegantly restrained, miniature sound events.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
