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 conversation and livestream considering a global feminist critique of capital with Silvia Federici, Hortense Spillers and Gayatri C. Spivak.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Haunted by the archive of the New Cross Fire, Jay Bernard presents a film and poetry reading that undertakes a queer exploration of black British history, reconstructed from archives and apparent debris.
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
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.
One of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation discusses practices of Indigenous Resurgence drawn from Nishnaabeg poetic knowledge.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
