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.
“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
In 2008 we toured our Kill Your Timid Notion festival of experimental sound and image to London, Bristol and Glasgow, bringing audiences a taste of the previous 5 festival editions.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
The weeks previous TLRS daily radio shows, after-hours conversations, radio booths and special guests reassembled as a live electroacoustic performance.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
