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.
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
What is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
