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.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing by the Stones of Stenness, instead of the Ring of Brodgar, because of bad weather.
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
Three panels offering opportunities to discuss how to build stronger alliances between the sex workers’ rights, migrants rights and reproductive justice movements and how to face, together, an increasingly punitive and reactionary system.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Joe Colley specialises in hotwired sound constructions full of ominous electronic disturbances and caustic, noxious drones. For KYTN, Joe created a situation of controlled chaos with 50 light sensitive oscillators placed in a field of candles.
