Reflection
5 Years After Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible. It has been 5 years since Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
News
31 May 2022
Arika in Stockholm at IASPIS
Welcome to a presentation of curator Bryony McIntyre who is visiting Stockholm form May 17 to June 3, as part of IASPIS visiting expert programme. Bryony McIntyre is a founding co-director of Arika, a political arts organisation furthering the connections between artistic production and social change: through festivals, grassroots community-led programmes and international collaborations. Arika […]
2 July 2020
Turner Bursary
Tate Britain announced the ten recipients of their Turner Bursaries, which in 2020, have been awarded in place of the Turner Prize. Arika is one of them! This comes as a total surprise! We are extremely grateful for the award and for this moment of recognition and acknowledgment and to be sharing this platform with […]
Ongoing programming
Episodes
A key part of our programming, Episodes explore the interlinked nature of aesthetics and social organising, through public events, investigating interlinked themes and contradictions, which develop from one Episode to the next.Episodes are an attempt to contribute to sustaining, defending and sharing radical forms of sociality. They are annual(ish) events which bring together performance, investigation […]
2 April 2018
Carceral Capitalism
Jackie Wang’s new book Carceral Capitalism is out now published by SEMIOTEXT(E). Jackie appeared at Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist in November. Documentation of her readings and talks coming soon! “What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living […]
15 September 2017
The Polymath – Samuel Delany documentary at SQIFF
We’ve hooked up with Scottish Queer International Film Festival to present The Polymath – a great documentary about Samuel R. Delany. Come along to find out more about his life and work before he comes to Episode 9 in November. Fred Barney Taylor’s documentary offers a portrait of Samuel R. Delany, black gay man, radical, […]