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.
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Talk charting the radical history of experimental music in Japan + the lowdown into the careers of many of the artists appearing at MLFC.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
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.
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
