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.
How do grassroots feminist organisations strategise relationships between mothers, parents, carers and their children based on respect and empowerment, in resistance to the practice of putting children in often the most uncaring of places – care.
Chris Corsano, Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in the Hamilton Mausoleum, Hamilton.
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.
