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.
The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
A double bill of Morgan Fisher films that ask what can be achieved by a simple structural method of commenting on scraps of 35mm film, re-shot on 16mm film and what happens to meaning (if anything) when ‘insert shots’ are relieved of their original duty of providing crucial plot development for a variety of other movies?
In true reality television style, this in-depth artist talk will tackle all the hardest-hitting questions and juiciest details about care, creative collaboration, and disability justice.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
Ever wondered about the roadside festoons which are the innards of discarded cassette tapes? All will be revealed in this methodical and insightful documentary by UK luminary John Smith and sound artist cohort Graeme Miller.
