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.
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.
With lo-fi dreams and high-def humor, Bande brings MC vibes to the day. Interluding music with spoken performance, the live extimacy of Bande’s presence reaches out via emo-techno-bridges.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.
