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.
An utterly deep introspection told in aching, weeping guitar lines; melodic, simple, always minimal but somehow entirely epic.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
John Mullarkey sets in a wider context our understanding of Alain Badiou and Francois Laruelle, two of the most radical philosophers in Europe today.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
