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.
Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
An assembly to try and provide some experiential and theoretical resources for the renewal of a certain affective, extra-political sociality, in the face of one of our great adversaries; the forces of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.
A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
Two figureheads of the minimalist electronica pulse, Ikeda and Nicolai have been responsible for some of the most innovative and ground-breaking music of the last decade, redefining experimental electronica.
