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.
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Free-jazz chat with Sabir Mateen, Daniel Cater, Andrew Barker – hosted by Byron Coley.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
The first of two workshops that highlight correspondence as a way of working. Somewhere between song, speech, and logistical arrangement, these workshops invite participants to consider care as infrastructure.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
