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.
We’ll be looking at decolonising ‘global mental health’. We’ll look at the concepts of decoloniality, of things being ‘culture bound’, and at hermeneutical injustice* as ways to examine dominator knowledge systems, and the institution of psych/iatry.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Radical transfeminism aims to hold the space for finding relations between the ruins of the everyday. Emerging from the debris, spaces for politics find form as poetics to carry understandings, actions and be/longings.
AVVA sees the internal feedback of Toshi’s no-input mixing desk is fed to Billy, and transformed into bright and variegated patters, striations and blooming colour, before being fed back to Toshi and manipulated on route to the PA.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
