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.
Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen’s trio with percussionist Andrew Barker; incessantly driving forward through sweat-drenched bursts of pure ecstatic freedom.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”
Do ideas emerging from particle physics help to re-think of blackness as a mode of life in which it’s possible to practice difference without separation?
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
