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.
An open-ended moment in an ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions they share. A “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.”
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Dead Labour Process drool-tape farmer, squeaking/creaking Usurper brother and Peeesseye’s yodelling traps-man hold a real OUT splutter party.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
A performed reflection on Malin’s previous re-enacting of a super influential landmark of performance art from the French feminist and artist Gina Pane.
