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 guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
One of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation discusses practices of Indigenous Resurgence drawn from Nishnaabeg poetic knowledge.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
A performed lecture concerned with Renaissance occult (musical) thinkers of the cosmic who put forward the notion of the “disharmony of the world”
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
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.
