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.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
The second in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. What does the sharing of vulnerability entail? Can such a sharing inform progressive social relations?
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
As part of Karrabing’s visit to Scotland, the collective will be hosted for three days in the Isle of Skye by The School of Plural Futures.
An evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers
Expect slutty DJs, playful performances, stripper poles, rococo cakes, union broads and intimate readings…
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
