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.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Hartmut led “a workshop in the old-fashioned way of discussion, mutual exploration of ideas and samples; trying out what can be shared and where the fault lines show.”
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
