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 performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
Series of short sets by Acid Mothers Temple / Ruins offshoots Zubi Zuva X, Akaten & Zoffy.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Three panels offering opportunities to discuss how to build stronger alliances between the sex workers’ rights, migrants rights and reproductive justice movements and how to face, together, an increasingly punitive and reactionary system.
