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.
This theme collates work/concepts that have been explored at a number of recent events. Some intial suggestions of where to start could be with one of boychild’s arresting lipsync performances, the live performative outcome of the No Total project or Park McArthur and Constantina Zavitzanos’s contribution to Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives that included song, film, poetry and audience participation. The idea behind this proposed theme is to offer a way to explore and navigate the archive. The paired ‘terms’ the theme is composed of are not synonyms nor are they binary oppositions but words that combine to (hopefully) produce un-rational anti-categories. The aim is to allow (encourage) the archive to be read in ways counter to normative or reductive categories. To allow things in the archive to appear in sometimes unlikely groupings and to resist essentialism.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.
The first performative part in a game of chance and endurance as actor Tam Dean Burn constantly broadcasts for 24hrs.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
A film installation as both allegory and investigation of The Rockridge Institute and their research into ‘framing’ and the use of metaphor within political discourse.
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Kylie Minoise Vs Nackt Insecten feedback/ vocal physical threat ‘vs’ ecstatic electronic cloudbursts
Thirty lucky Instal punters experience Kylie’s pre-match aggro workout one-on-one in the darkness of an Arches dressing room.
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.