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.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
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.
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.
A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
