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.
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Transfeminist and revolutionary poetry, voice and timbral abstraction: a sounding and spatialising of reparative sonic and somatic practices that can speak back to violent histories of expropriation and ecocide.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
