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 chat with Rashad about the communist, conceptual methodology that informs his ground-breaking synthetic music—a form of speculative sonic fiction writing to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
We’ll look at the language and politics of what gets ‘mental health’ and consider more holistic understandings of experiences that honour the connection between mind/body/soul, and that acknowledge social and political context.
Do ideas emerging from particle physics help to re-think of blackness as a mode of life in which it’s possible to practice difference without separation?
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Stripping back the domesticated ‘meaning’ of (everyday, mundane, kitchen) tools to reveal “a lexicon of rage and frustration.” Plus an allegorical use of mundane, everyday things as an examination of how meaning is constructed in film.
