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.
Arika is working in partnership with Decriminalised Futures on a multi year collaboration featuring multiple creative projects exploring sex worker lives, experiences and movement struggles.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”
Arika is proud to be one of several arts organisations in Scotland supporting the commissioning of a radical new manifesto, by and for disabled artists working in Scotland.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
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.
