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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.

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Chuquimamani-Condori performing. Their face tilts downwards. They are wearing a wide brimmed hat, the background is dark and their face is lit dramatically by the cast of a red light
17 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

DJ E

Chuquimamani-Condori

Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Taku Unami standing against a wall
22 February 2010
DCA

Investigation – Taku Unami

Taku Unami

With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Make A Way Out of No Way Poster Graphic
26 – 28 September 2014
Tramway Stereo

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way

A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.

A man in garden looks at the screen - "We're here among ourselves…"
16 April 2015
Tramway

Every Little Thing

Dir. Nicolas Philibert

Documentary of La Borde clinic in France and its radical politics of experimentation, in which residents and staff reciprocate in a kind of entanglement, an opening up amongst themselves.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Projection of a distorted signal in blues and greens on a wall
15 April 2007
DCA

AVVA

Billy Roisz Toshimaru Nakamura

AVVA sees the internal feedback of Toshi’s no-input mixing desk is fed to Billy, and transformed into bright and variegated patters, striations and blooming colour, before being fed back to Toshi and manipulated on route to the PA.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
A person sits on a bench in a relaxed position in a dimly lit room. They are wearing a lace bra.
Book

Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers

Lib Lobberson Marin Scarlett Payola E ZuZu Gabrielli Chardonnay Bella Violet Quinn Rab Green Chao-Ying Betty Rao Heather Ashleigh Williams (BABEWORLD) Jet Moon Estella Clarke

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.

Steffen Basho-Junghans backstage standing by a wall
17 October 2004
The Arches

Steffen Basho-Junghans

Steffen Basho-Junghans

Repetitive, mesmerizing rhythmic workouts, to pieces of stark and rigorous introspection, where notes picked and slid in isolation, scatter like mercury around the listener.

INSTAL 04
A projected image reads "decriminalise sex work" on a red banner. Four people are sat underneath the image on a stage talking with an audience.
19 November 2017
Tramway

Sex, Work, Justice

SWARM

The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
a Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician nonbinary femme with curly brown silver and purple hair and an undercut, wearing a “talk to plants, not cops” navy and turquoise crop top, tiny black denim shorts and a hot pink KN95 mask, takes a mirror selfie with a phone with glitter and many kinda of brightly colored animals and plants on it.
21 June 2023

Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost Introduction

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Introducing and setting intentions for a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves.

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
A large white circular form hovers in the mid distance at the end of a long room
11 October 2008
DCA

L’Anticoncept

Gil Wolman

60 minutes of hard ass minimal film, projected onto a weather balloon and accompanied by the inspired poetic rant of a visionary Frenchman.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Bhob Rainey, Jason Lescalleet & Greg Kelley backstage at INSTAL 06
13 October 2006
The Arches

Nmperign + Jason Lescalleet

Jason Lescalleet Nmperign

Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.

INSTAL 06
participants sit at a large table listening to the discussion
3 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Ultra-red Vogue’ology

For day two of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by the Vogue’ology collective.

A survey is a process of listening
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