21 June 2024
I wanna be with you everywhere Solstice Gathering 2024
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
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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15 February 2008
The Arches
Self Cancellation – Palimpsest #1
Benedict Drew Chris Weaver John Butcher Mark Bain Michael Colligan Rhodri Davies Robin Hayward Sarah Washington John Bain Lee Patterson
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
INSTAL 08
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead
Kyoaku No Intention
Kyoaku No Intention
Munehiro Narita’s Kyoaku No Intention (Worst Intentions) fired out some of the most compelling no-wave improvised rock of the 80s.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
25 May 2013
Tramway
Soulnessless – Cantos I-IV
Terre Thaemlitz
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight
17 October 2004
The Arches
Exias-J
Exias-J
The Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan, [EXIAS-J] are a loose collective of musicians and dilettantes who seem to represent an entire and self sufficient scene in one band.
INSTAL 04
12 March 2022
Online
Neurotransgressive Fun Times: Time Travel Dyspractice Workshop
Daniel Oliver
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Mutual Aid
19 November 2017
Tramway
The Cybernetic Cop
Jackie Wang
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
24 August 2020
Online
Happy Birthday, Marsha!
adrienne maree brown Black Obsidian Sound System Lola Olufemi Tourmaline
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.
Revolution is not a one-time event
1 December 2002
The Arches
Phill Niblock
Phill Niblock
Slowly evolving ultra-subtle harmonics and multi-tracked, otherworldly drones that only reveal their true power at high volume.
INSTAL 02
15 February 2008
The Arches
Self Cancellation – Asymptotic Freedom / Feedback Wire Drawing
Benedict Drew John Butcher
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
INSTAL 08
17 – 21 April 2013
Tramway
Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
25 May 2013
Tramway
No Church in the Wild
Jack Halberstam
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight