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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.

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Rhodri Davies plays two suspended deconstructed weathered harps
15 February 2008
The Arches

Self Cancellation – Seed Burn / adh

Lee Patterson Rhodri Davies

Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.

INSTAL 08
An abstract pattern against a black background
17 February 2006
DCA

Christmas Tree Stand

Bruce McClure

A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Drawing of concentric arrows with 3 words in the centre: attacker, helper,victim
19 April 2015
Tramway

Work Care Class 3 – Care & Revolution

Howard Slater

Final workshop exploring work, care and class. Does the ‘care industry’ summon forth its own class? Can this ‘affective class’, in their ability to care for others, militate against the carelessness of self-interest?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
six red umbrellas on a white background
4 March 2018
MoMA PS1

Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance NYC

For this day-long festival, sex workers and their allies from New York, the tri-state area, and Europe will gather at MoMA PS1 to debate, perform, dance, strategize & share knowledge.

Lots of tiny paper and wire sails moving in sympathy with air currents
10 October 2008
DCA

It’s in the Air

Felix Hess is a unique crosser of the boundaries between science and art. He wrote his doctorial thesis on the aerodynamics of the boomerang

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Script papers are strewn across a black floor
20 April 2013
Tramway

No Total

What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?

Matthew Saladin wearing a suit gesticulates as he talks and holds a paper
12 November 2010
Tramway

Eject & No Disc

Matthieu Saladin

French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.

INSTAL 10
Current 93 on stage at INSTAL 04
16 October 2004
The Arches

Current 93

Current 93

One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.

INSTAL 04
A blue and mauve background with black text that reads System Errors
17 August 2020
Online

System Errors: Abolitionist Technologies and Aesthetics

American Artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Juliana Huxtable Legacy Russell

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.

Revolution is not a one-time event
Moor Mother performs at Episode 9, back lit with pale golden light
16 November 2017
Tramway

Moor Mother

Moor Mother

Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Jack Halberstam speaking into a microphone
25 May 2013
Tramway

No Church in the Wild

Jack Halberstam

Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
A female lying on a bed smiling as someone sits next to her
19 April 2015
Tramway

Ode to 1 & under

Constantina Zavitsanos Park McArthur

How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
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