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.
Thought and action, writing and protesting. A chat with Nat Raha, KUCHENGA and Jackie Wang asking what can be learnt from writing across genres by agitators, activists and abolitionists?
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
The weeks previous TLRS daily radio shows, after-hours conversations, radio booths and special guests reassembled as a live electroacoustic performance.
Social and party with all proceeds going to the Unity Centre, featuring DJ SETS with Dj@Christelle, DJ D-Harsh, Nena Etza & Moor Mother.
Stripping back the domesticated ‘meaning’ of (everyday, mundane, kitchen) tools to reveal “a lexicon of rage and frustration.” Plus an allegorical use of mundane, everyday things as an examination of how meaning is constructed in film.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
