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.
In this interactive workshop, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid, will share key principles, explore common challenges in mutual aid work, and offer tools for working through them.
What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Beyond time, colorlines, ability, and sexuality, a movement exploration into what it means to see and be seen, how hearing contrast with what is actually being heard.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Kylie Minoise Vs Nackt Insecten feedback/ vocal physical threat ‘vs’ ecstatic electronic cloudbursts
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
