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.
The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
Arika is working in partnership with Decriminalised Futures on a multi year collaboration featuring multiple creative projects exploring sex worker lives, experiences and movement struggles.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Beatriz will explore her thinking, on film as translation, plural subjectivity or land-based militancy. Discussion will centre around her work Oriana and its companion piece Oenanthe, which will be screened in full.
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Nothing if not repetitive, film is founded on the incremental succession of minute difference. But how does repetition of the same play out, and is it a tool to comment on the standardising repetition of the mass media?
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
