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 space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Tell Me About It creates a space for direct one-to-one conversations with people who habitually find others (filmmakers, politicians, journalists) speaking on their behalf… In partnership with Edinburgh Art Festival.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Live in person at Performance Space New York and live-streamed everywhere! Watching Storyboard P dance feels like glimpsing into another world.
A double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.
