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.
Could cruising and random public sex be the basis of an ethically organised society? A discussion with Jackie Wang, Samuel R. Delany and Huw Lemmey.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
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?
A party and fundraiser to support Sex Workers’ struggles and LGBT Unity with music and performances from the sex workers’ community and allies, plus DJ’s and dancing.
Inspired by the supernatural horror of H. P. Lovecraft, black metal and a sense of worry as to what constitutes an object, or a world.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
