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.
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
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 revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.
Amid the blur of erotics, the jangle of poetics, and the fetishizing of sickness and disability, the heat of Panteha’s performance and sculpture freezes all.
