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.
Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Live in person at Performance Space New York and live-streamed everywhere! Watching Storyboard P dance feels like glimpsing into another world.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
A three-day celebration surveying all manner of diverse musical activities, which at their core share a basic kinship: one of exploration and the discovery of musical expresssion.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
An extravagant debauch of plush toys and ritual. Palestine performed a version of Strumming Music, a trance inducing investigation into overtone systems achievable on a Bosendorfer Imperial Piano.
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.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
