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.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
Final workshop exploring work, care and class. Does the ‘care industry’ summon forth its own class? Can this ‘affective class’, in their ability to care for others, militate against the carelessness of self-interest?
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
