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.
A riot of 60’s psychedelia, magick, ritual and tight black leather, this programme highlights underground innovators who use and subvert pop music for their own experimental ends; and be warned, in Anger, there’s real darkness.
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
An informal conversation, over breakfast, about how abolition and movement work structures Mijke and Nat’s approach to transfeminism, ahead of their new book Trans Femme Futures.
Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
