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.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Ken Jacobs chats to Edwin Carels: Edwin is a curator based in Ghent, responsible for some fantastic programmes of experimental film and art at the Rotterdam Film festival (amongst others).
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
In the Foyer at the Tramway we will screen a documentary from the Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance 2017 and La Llamada by Eduardo Restrepo Castaño.
Free Jazz group comprising Matt Lavelle, Matt Heyner (TEST, No-Neck Blues Band) and Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs).
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
