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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.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
A conversation between influential figures thinking through Blackness and Indigeneity, asking: what if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come?
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives NY by Jandek, Loren Mazzacane Connors & Alan Licht, and MV & EE.
In Our Hands is a ten week programme of workshops facilitated by Lisa Fannen, Omikemi and Clay. The sessions explore radical approaches to health and collective care in the context of movement for liberation and social justice.
Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.