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.
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
A performed lecture concerned with Renaissance occult (musical) thinkers of the cosmic who put forward the notion of the “disharmony of the world”
Transfeminist and revolutionary poetry, voice and timbral abstraction: a sounding and spatialising of reparative sonic and somatic practices that can speak back to violent histories of expropriation and ecocide.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
A carefully thought out, simple but rich performance using just a turntable, teach yourself foreign language LP’s, the impeccable timing of a percussionist, and an idea.
