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 performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.
Thought and action, writing and protesting. A chat with Nat Raha, KUCHENGA and Jackie Wang asking what can be learnt from writing across genres by agitators, activists and abolitionists?
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
In this interactive workshop, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid, will share key principles, explore common challenges in mutual aid work, and offer tools for working through them.
A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
