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.
Expansive and considered, inclusive and deeply human minimalism: Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Manfred Werder.
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Power-electronic klutz behaviour indecipherable blasphemies, cuts, bruises and broken microphones by Kovorox Sound head-honcho Lea Cummings.
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Munehiro Narita’s Kyoaku No Intention (Worst Intentions) fired out some of the most compelling no-wave improvised rock of the 80s.
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
