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.
Grouped here are performances and talks about or exploring sociality, and performances and talks that involve lots of people (thematically or literally). For example: the second part of a wide ranging and vital conversation between Amiri Baraka, Fred Moten, Sonia Sanchez and Wadada Leo Smith. The Ueinzz Theatre Company discuss the relationship between their creative practice and care. Or the sets and performances from the Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight Club night.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.
Organised by Twiggy Pucci Garcon and Pony Zion, The Masters Ball focuses on the work of 50 individuals designated within the scene as ‘masters’ in their respective performance categories, which include Vogue, Runway, and Face.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
TEST is a collective creative improvising quartet based out of the NYC Underground (figuratively and literally). Their street-hardened, spatial Jazz is riotous and intense: is also makes us think about collective organization, and different ideas of responsibility and liberty.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.