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.
In Our Hands is a ten week programme of workshops facilitated by Lisa Fannen, Omikemi and Clay. The sessions explore radical approaches to health and collective care in the context of movement for liberation and social justice.
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
The first of two workshops that highlight correspondence as a way of working. Somewhere between song, speech, and logistical arrangement, these workshops invite participants to consider care as infrastructure.
A performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test. A game of chance. Constantly broadcasting live, actor Tam Dean Burn will leave Tramway at the start of INSTAL and walk away from it, in an ever increasing spiral, for a day. Then he’ll walk back.
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
