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 open-ended moment in an ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions they share. A “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.”
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Dir: Maurizio Lazzarato & Angela Melitopoulos
A filmic constellation exploring Felix Guattari’s anti-patriarchal, anti-colonialist, anti-psychiatric, animist ideas of care and the self. And an Introduction to the Episode.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Has neoliberal capitalism locked down social experience? Are our seemingly subjective desires, our identities, pre-packaged by dominating social structures?
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
