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.
Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
A carefully thought out, simple but rich performance using just a turntable, teach yourself foreign language LP’s, the impeccable timing of a percussionist, and an idea.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Inspired by Delany’s Aye, and Gomorra. A spookily filmic world where asexual bodies live in the contradiction of their unarousable loneliness and desire for intimacy and contact.
