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.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
A performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
A three-day celebration surveying all manner of diverse musical activities, which at their core share a basic kinship: one of exploration and the discovery of musical expresssion.
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
An evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers
Expect slutty DJs, playful performances, stripper poles, rococo cakes, union broads and intimate readings…
Out of a dark haze, shafts of light emerge, as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Simultaneously, out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone.
