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.
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
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.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Taku’s actions strip back musical performance to one of its original proposals: what is an action and how does it create a situation for spending time together, for paying attention?
Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.
