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.
‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
Cask-strength electrohypnol/ shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder responsible for recent Tremors blowouts.
