22 August 2026, 20:00
Queer Sex Worker Shorts
Carnal Productions
A screening of short films by queer sex workers, who reclaim the authorship of intimacy.
Hard Labour
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.
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29 November 2008
BFI Southbank
CCA
Arnolfini
Word Associations
Various Artists Guy Sherwin John Smith
A programme of discontinuity between narration, text and image. Including Manual Saiz’s employment of John Malkovich’s Spanish dubbing double and Peter Rose’s absurdly hilarious concrete poetry subtitling chaos.
Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
14 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Polly Shang Kuan Band
Polly Shang Kuan Band
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
INSTAL 06
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Los Glissandinos
Kai Fagaschinski Klaus Filip
Los Glissandinos work with clarinet and sine tones beating and thrumming in your middle ear, all beautifully paced and serene, but with just enough steely menace broiling under the surface to keep you on edge.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
13 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Nimrod 33 & Shareholder
Nimrod 33 Shareholder
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
INSTAL 06
20 – 29 June 2006
Various
Resonant Spaces
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
26 February 2010
DCA
Mattin
Mattin
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank
CCA
About Face
Various Artists Paul Sharits
This programme takes human subjects as the focus for sound and image construction. And it includes a couple of masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.
Publication, Nov 2024
IN OUR LIFETIME – A New Anti-Imperialist Resource
Hussein Mitha
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
19 November 2017
Tramway
Chubz
Huw Lemmey
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
15 – 20 April 2014
MoMA PS1
The New School
Holiday Inn
Club Escuelitas
Master Ballstar Weekend
A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.
11 December 2004
DCA
Tower Recordings
Tower Recordings
The Tower performance at KYTN throws into that mix the 70’s fluxus light shows and films of Jeff Perkins and other filmic interventions tuned to their unique frequency.
Kill Your Timid Notion 04