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.
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
The Echo project is an installation as audio guide for a crowd. And at the same time it’s a private conversation: with you, as one of 20 people in a room, a sort of public intimacy.
A concrete walkway ending in mid air, a ridiculously tight squeeze between three office buildings and various other sites of Labour politician and council leader T. Dan Smith’s modernist regeneration projects and ‘slum clearances’ of the 1950’s and 60’s.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?
An evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers
Expect slutty DJs, playful performances, stripper poles, rococo cakes, union broads and intimate readings…
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…
