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 conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
A conversation between Philip and Moten: how do we read NourbeSe’s anti-narrative poetic lament in Glasgow today, given the city’s role in the history of slavery?
What to do about a telethon other than fuck it up? Poet, tarotist, artist, and librarian Cyrée Jarelle Johnson returns to IWBWYE to read the 1980s and ’90s for what those decades were: practice for now.
The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
