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.
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
