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.
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
A conversation between influential figures thinking through Blackness and Indigeneity, asking: what if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come?
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Craig will give a guided reading of his handbook of exemplary instances of literary listening and will be joined by one of the selected authors, Vanessa Place.
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
