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.
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.
Acting at the minimum. Each film here substitutes one small thing for another, (ironically) transforming received meanings by the simplest of actions; often kind of funny too.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
Kylie Minoise Vs Nackt Insecten feedback/ vocal physical threat ‘vs’ ecstatic electronic cloudbursts
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
