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.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
A conversation between influential figures thinking through Blackness and Indigeneity, asking: what if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come?
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
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.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
