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 panel exploring how to dismantle the master’s house — its material edifices and ideological architecture — and the construction of abolitionist futures in the present.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
A cast of pioneering and provocative spirits who exist outside the mainstream, between borders and definitions; a series of events that each explore different aspects of music that doesn’t quite fit any given category. INSTAL 08 included the Self-Cancellation project.
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
