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.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
What to do about a telethon other than fuck it up? Poet, tarotist, artist, and librarian Cyrée Jarelle Johnson returns to IWBWYE to read the 1980s and ’90s for what those decades were: practice for now.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Four intimate 45 minute sessions, readings of your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
We’ll look more at psycho-emotional health – exploring experiences as opposed to diagnoses. And exploring collective care and collective healing.
