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.
Inhabiting a different kind of energy, Ueinzz’s open rehearsals reveal a glimpse into their ongoing daily theatrical modes of caring – multiplying the ways in which their plays are meant to be felt, rather than understood.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.
The Truth and Lies book project emerges as part of a rising tide of sex worker art and organised struggle to end criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work.
Live in person at Performance Space New York and live-streamed everywhere! Watching Storyboard P dance feels like glimpsing into another world.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
