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.
Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Transfeminist and revolutionary poetry, voice and timbral abstraction: a sounding and spatialising of reparative sonic and somatic practices that can speak back to violent histories of expropriation and ecocide.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
John Mullarkey sets in a wider context our understanding of Alain Badiou and Francois Laruelle, two of the most radical philosophers in Europe today.
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
