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.
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
