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 historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
Repetitive, mesmerizing rhythmic workouts, to pieces of stark and rigorous introspection, where notes picked and slid in isolation, scatter like mercury around the listener.
Two bottomless brunch writing workshops—with readings—speculating the relationship between space, infrastructure, technologies and sex.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
