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.
“Introduction to Protactile Theory” is a legendary seminar that facilitator John Lee Clark has designed to bring diverse communities into conversation with the Protactile movement.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.
Philip Jeck creates slowly evolving symphonies that are as much about the crackling hiss of old vinyl as the actual ‘musical’ material.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
A panel exploring the radical potential of technologies through fugitivity and opacity: their ability to obscure, to make it impossible for us to be known, to render us untraceable by every arm of the state even under the all-consuming spectre of surveillance capital.
