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.
Dave will lead a session created for teenagers and designed to stimulate a supportive environment for artistic exploration through music improvisation.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Three panels offering opportunities to discuss how to build stronger alliances between the sex workers’ rights, migrants rights and reproductive justice movements and how to face, together, an increasingly punitive and reactionary system.
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?
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
The first of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme focuses on the forebearers of filmic and musical innovation over the last 70 years.
