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 public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.
Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.
A performed installation by one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt
