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.
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.
Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
Listening to people listening to their own homes. Musicians and actors will listen back to recordings made in local peoples homes on headphones, and interpret/ translate what they are hearing.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
