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.
Joe Colley specialises in hotwired sound constructions full of ominous electronic disturbances and caustic, noxious drones. For KYTN, Joe created a situation of controlled chaos with 50 light sensitive oscillators placed in a field of candles.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in the exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, named after the ‘central region’ of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain’s two hemispheres.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
