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.
Noise music for the eyes: projectors turned into instruments, B&W film loops into a thrumming riot of colour, motion and sound.
Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now) host
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
