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 spectacular musical show which discusses the representation of a nation state, its characters and history. A learning play on myth construction and its reproduction.
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.
An evening of live performances, readings & saucy rococo cakes celebrating the launch of Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers.
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
