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.
Haunted by the archive of the New Cross Fire, Jay Bernard presents a film and poetry reading that undertakes a queer exploration of black British history, reconstructed from archives and apparent debris.
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
A programme of discontinuity between narration, text and image. Including Manual Saiz’s employment of John Malkovich’s Spanish dubbing double and Peter Rose’s absurdly hilarious concrete poetry subtitling chaos.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
A performed reflection on Malin’s previous re-enacting of a super influential landmark of performance art from the French feminist and artist Gina Pane.
