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.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
A conversation of intergenerational trans-resistance and anti-racist fierceness between two of the most inspiring public speakers we know.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Former street performer, organist, performance artist, circus performer, harpist, accordion player, tree surgeon and tricyclist performing solo.
Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
