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 workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
