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 panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
The Truth and Lies book project emerges as part of a rising tide of sex worker art and organised struggle to end criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
