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.
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
The second in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. What does the sharing of vulnerability entail? Can such a sharing inform progressive social relations?
A panel exploring how to dismantle the master’s house — its material edifices and ideological architecture — and the construction of abolitionist futures in the present.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
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.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.
NVA asked Arika to curate and programme the sound aspects of their 2007 Half-Life production in Kilmartin Glen. Arika worked with Toshiya Tsunoda, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
