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.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
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.
An open collaborative workshop space in which games, warm-up sessions, exercises and scenes are potentially the same thing, through which to project your own concerns onto the stage.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?
Brain boiling duo improvisation by great Japanese no input mixing desk pioneer Toshi Nakamura and french organ philosopher Jean-Luc Guionnet.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
