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.
Usurper luddite twins’ disabled instruments play a game of pick-up-sticks with the deconstructed horn of a young Derby opponent.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
A film as a translation of Monique Wittig’s landmark feminist novel Les Guérillères, in which a plural protagonist of militant feminists inhabit a fantastical, enigmatic and hallucinatory miasmatic space-time of post Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Transfeminist and revolutionary poetry, voice and timbral abstraction: a sounding and spatialising of reparative sonic and somatic practices that can speak back to violent histories of expropriation and ecocide.
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
In true reality television style, this in-depth artist talk will tackle all the hardest-hitting questions and juiciest details about care, creative collaboration, and disability justice.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
