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.
Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
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?
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
