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.
An evening of live performances, readings & saucy rococo cakes celebrating the launch of Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
An informal conversation, over breakfast, about how abolition and movement work structures Mijke and Nat’s approach to transfeminism, ahead of their new book Trans Femme Futures.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
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.
