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 poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Sarah Washington uses electronics and wind-up radios, running out of charge to repsond to the festivals’ Self Cancellation provocation.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A new interpretation of Kosugi’s Catch-Wave, producing a cloud of fluctuating, hypnotic drones, in front of a backdrop of projected waves.
Hijokaidan rapidly built a following due to the overwhelmingly physical intensity of their live performances, often involving destructive onstage rituals of vomit, urine, mangled guitars and ear shredding volume.
