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 is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
An open collaborative workshop space in which games, warm-up sessions, exercises and scenes are potentially the same thing, through which to project your own concerns onto the stage.
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
N30 is a massive, dynamic, immersive multi-channel presentation of front-line field recordings from the protest against the WTO in Seattle
