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.
“Introduction to Protactile Theory” is a legendary seminar that facilitator John Lee Clark has designed to bring diverse communities into conversation with the Protactile movement.
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Join activists, academics and artists as they reflect on abolitionist praxis and thought, exploring covergences with gender, poetry, technology, performance, speculation, aesthetics, film and culture. This series of events commemorates Black August and is for anyone who wishes to answer the abolitionist call to action and thought.
For day two of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by the Vogue’ology collective.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
