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.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
Two bottomless brunch writing workshops—with readings—speculating the relationship between space, infrastructure, technologies and sex.
Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
