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.
What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, the programme includes (in London at least) a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia) with a live narration by Michael Snow.
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?
