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.
In a moment of social exhaustion, we want to ask how we might care for each other differently. We Can’t Live Without Our Lives is a 5-day exploration of care as a form of struggle and resistance, with communities who embody it.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
