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.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
A performed reflection on Malin’s previous re-enacting of a super influential landmark of performance art from the French feminist and artist Gina Pane.
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.
