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.
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
