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.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
Mirror and Phantom Engineer performing an improvised soundtrack to Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 horror film prototype, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.
A recently reanimated Ascension, with mighty Leeds drum hero Paul Hession bringing a dense polyrhythmic torrent into play with Jaworzyn’s reinvigorated piercing guitar.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
