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.
Pluralising Palestine to unsettle colonialism everywhere. For liberation, justice and revolution to be successful they must be planetary. Between every river and every sea, and beyond every border and state.
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.
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.
The São Paulo collective JAMAC visually manifests community histories and desires into patterns: for fabric, houses, ceramics, dishcloths… They have developed the set design for Episode 12 with participating artists and workshops locally.
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.
How can we acknowledge the violent history of museum and gallery collections? Can we detach Western art from capitalist systems?
David is a poet, playwright, writer and a member of the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Hanine is a leading Palestinian scholar, who writes about European antisemitism, settler colonialism and religion. They’ll talk about the history of Zionism, Europe, states, individuation and solidarity.
Create your own badge designs, with collaging, drawings, stickers and more! Whether your badge is playful, political, expressive or just for fun this is a space to create something that feels like you.
