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.
Philip Jeck creates slowly evolving symphonies that are as much about the crackling hiss of old vinyl as the actual ‘musical’ material.
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Repetitive, mesmerizing rhythmic workouts, to pieces of stark and rigorous introspection, where notes picked and slid in isolation, scatter like mercury around the listener.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
