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.
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
2 days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil.
Dois dias de discussões e apresentações online de artistes explorando as práticas cosmológicas, decoloniais e sensoriais de coletivoas de arte, dança e música de base negra e indígena no Brasil.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
Two-parts Helhesten spit strangled shanties and cracked reeds from under a net of the Glasgow Improv Orchestra’s six-strings and one moustache.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.
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.
