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.
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.
Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
A whistle stop tour of visual and material culture that has anchored the sex workers rights movement through the decades until today.
The 2006 INSTAL festival saw a broad selection of artists that included Blood Stereo and Ludo Mich, Ellen Fullman and Sean Meehan, Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad and a specially created performance by Maryanne Amacher.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
