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.
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.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Individual experience separated by physical boundaries (of space, time or ability) suggested as communities of collective experience by (perhaps voyeuristic) artists.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…
