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 programme of discontinuity between narration, text and image. Including Manual Saiz’s employment of John Malkovich’s Spanish dubbing double and Peter Rose’s absurdly hilarious concrete poetry subtitling chaos.
The first of two workshops that highlight correspondence as a way of working. Somewhere between song, speech, and logistical arrangement, these workshops invite participants to consider care as infrastructure.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Three intimate 45 minute sessions, reading your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
A recently reanimated Ascension, with mighty Leeds drum hero Paul Hession bringing a dense polyrhythmic torrent into play with Jaworzyn’s reinvigorated piercing guitar.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
