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.
Los Glissandinos work with clarinet and sine tones beating and thrumming in your middle ear, all beautifully paced and serene, but with just enough steely menace broiling under the surface to keep you on edge.
The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.
Amid the blur of erotics, the jangle of poetics, and the fetishizing of sickness and disability, the heat of Panteha’s performance and sculpture freezes all.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Black-clad with an ominous aura created by their distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads and raucous mantric jams.
