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.
A performance by one of the most influential anti-colonial poets and translators internationally: a refusal to be legible that demands to be read, a translation of the unspeakable that must be heard.
Join local community organisers and activists in Glasgow to think about how we build and share knowledge of state power–including proscription, police violence, elite capture, and legislative attack–while avoiding surveillance.
For this workshop, Writer and poet Mahmoud Alshaer invites people to share in his compositional method: a daily practice in which he asks what it means to write under different temporal regimes—the present, during the genocide, and during the occupation.
A rare conversation with Leda, who is the leading philosopher of Black Theatre in Brazil, exploring the specificities of its aesthetic, theoretical, and poetic intersections, and connection with African cultures, rituals, and philosophies.
Fernanda will share some of the practice and history of Teat(r)o Oficina, one of the most important counter-colonial, radical theatre companies in the world, which she works as an actress, co-director, project conceiver and free passionate researcher since 2015.
Palestinian Feminist scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian sits down with psychoanalyst and author Lara Sheehi to discuss some of Nadera’s other vital concepts including the ideas of ‘overkilling’ and ‘unchilding’, which are fundamental to understanding Palestinian experience today.
A landmark of militant cinema, bringing together drawings collected by Franz Fanon, alongside testimony from, and filmed portraits of children recounting French state violence during the Algerian War of Independence.
A conversation between preeminent Palestinian feminist, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and poet and theorist David Lloyd. Nadera has coined two incredibly profound concepts to understand Palestinian life today. Ashlaa’—the violent fracturing of Palestinian bodies and lamlameh—the defiant collecting of a loved one’s body.
This edition of the Conference of Butterflies asks contributors to share words, notions, practices which nourish or obstruct our movements from perceiving and abolishing all the forces, forms, institutions maintaining the planetary regime of ongoing Nakba.
Join the artists and participants in the Episode for food between events, catered by our friends Soul Food Sisters —a migrant women’s catering co-op from Glasgow’s East End.
Where has art stood in the Nakba’s perpetration? The Nakba in the Room is part of a response and a search for an exit from complicity; improvised, wrestled and unmade in the same time of its viewing.
Lara explodes the naïve claim to neutrality of normative psychiatric care. Her concept of ‘psychic intrusions’ helps to identify the ways power seeks to mould the consciousness of the people it subjugates. Her notion of ‘psychic militancy’ maps the resistance to such attempts.
