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.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
A testimony to poverty from Chris’s own experiences, and an invitation to engage with an all too typical situation and context through a kind of imaginary listening.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
