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.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.
Sarah Washington uses electronics and wind-up radios, running out of charge to repsond to the festivals’ Self Cancellation provocation.
Do ideas emerging from particle physics help to re-think of blackness as a mode of life in which it’s possible to practice difference without separation?
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
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.
