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.
The first performative part in a game of chance and endurance as actor Tam Dean Burn constantly broadcasts for 24hrs.
Radu plays a trombone, Klaus creates pure sine waves: they sound on their own, or sometimes together and often with considerable space and silence.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
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.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
