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.
An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.
Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
