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.
Amid the blur of erotics, the jangle of poetics, and the fetishizing of sickness and disability, the heat of Panteha’s performance and sculpture freezes all.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
An open collaborative workshop space in which games, warm-up sessions, exercises and scenes are potentially the same thing, through which to project your own concerns onto the stage.
Location: Around and about the old public library in Easterhouse; disinvested in and left to rot by the council but which was shamelessly, hastily and superficially cleaned by them in expectation of our event.
Recently rediscovered but still very pertinent, Kino Beleške presents a series of speech acts and performative gestures by protagonists of the new artistic practice in former Yugoslavia: each a personal take on the role of art in society.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
