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.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
We asked Christoph to come and give a sort of informal talk, raising some of his ideas about sound and image, and playing/ showing a few examples.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
A panel exploring the radical potential of technologies through fugitivity and opacity: their ability to obscure, to make it impossible for us to be known, to render us untraceable by every arm of the state even under the all-consuming spectre of surveillance capital.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
