15 October 2005
The Arches
Directing Hand
Directing Hand
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
INSTAL 05
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.
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4 March 2018
MoMA PS1
Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance NYC
For this day-long festival, sex workers and their allies from New York, the tri-state area, and Europe will gather at MoMA PS1 to debate, perform, dance, strategize & share knowledge.
23 November 2019
Tramway
Future Ruins: transfeminism, austerity and the archives
Jay Bernard Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha
Radical transfeminism aims to hold the space for finding relations between the ruins of the everyday. Emerging from the debris, spaces for politics find form as poetics to carry understandings, actions and be/longings.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
18 April 2013
Tramway
A story that cannot be told, yet must be told. Zong! and its context
Fred Moten M. NourbeSe Philip
A conversation between Philip and Moten: how do we read NourbeSe’s anti-narrative poetic lament in Glasgow today, given the city’s role in the history of slavery?
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
12 October 2005
The Universal
Stalled at Universal – Kylie Minoise
Kylie Minoise
Glasgow. Power electronic klutz behaviour by Kovorox sound head-honcho. Bruised bodies and broken microphones.
INSTAL 05
14 November 2024
Tramway
BARRUNTO
Emilia Beatriz
A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
13 October 2006
The Arches
Nmperign + Jason Lescalleet
Jason Lescalleet Nmperign
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
INSTAL 06
23 June 2006
Smoo Cave
Smoo Cave
Akio Suzuki John Butcher
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
Resonant Spaces
24 February 2012
Tramway
De Musicorum Infelicitate
Esther Ferrer Walter Marchetti
‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness
10 October 2008
DCA
Salon and Q&A
Kjell Björgeengen William Bennett Zoe Irvine
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
28 September 2014
Tramway
Dance Workshop
Glasgow Open Dance School Miss Prissy
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
13 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Usurper
Usurper
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
INSTAL 06