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.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
Organised by Twiggy Pucci Garcon and Pony Zion, The Masters Ball focuses on the work of 50 individuals designated within the scene as ‘masters’ in their respective performance categories, which include Vogue, Runway, and Face.
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
We asked Christoph to come and give a sort of informal talk, raising some of his ideas about sound and image, and playing/ showing a few examples.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
