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.
Inspired by Delany’s Aye, and Gomorra. A spookily filmic world where asexual bodies live in the contradiction of their unarousable loneliness and desire for intimacy and contact.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
