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 conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
Cask-strength electrohypnol/ shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder responsible for recent Tremors blowouts.
A double bill of Morgan Fisher films that ask what can be achieved by a simple structural method of commenting on scraps of 35mm film, re-shot on 16mm film and what happens to meaning (if anything) when ‘insert shots’ are relieved of their original duty of providing crucial plot development for a variety of other movies?
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
