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.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
Recently rediscovered but still very pertinent, Kino Beleške presents a series of speech acts and performative gestures by protagonists of the new artistic practice in former Yugoslavia: each a personal take on the role of art in society.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Each film in this programme celebrates process; the decay of emulsion, the properties of dust and dirt, the manipulation of time. Post the dawn of the digital age, we reflect on our love of the film form, celluloid as an object, a medium and a physical entity.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
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.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Do ideas emerging from particle physics help to re-think of blackness as a mode of life in which it’s possible to practice difference without separation?
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
