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.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
Sax/Drums duo of raucous, pealing noise, and cries of beguiling lyricism, whispered sax phrases float in a timbral cloud of bowed metal and rumbling toms.
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
