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.
In true reality television style, this in-depth artist talk will tackle all the hardest-hitting questions and juiciest details about care, creative collaboration, and disability justice.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
A programme that looks at how sound and image can be treated as variants in a collection of ordered objects; at how to create meaning from the similar, and to notice difference.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen’s trio with percussionist Andrew Barker; incessantly driving forward through sweat-drenched bursts of pure ecstatic freedom.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
Noise music for the eyes: projectors turned into instruments, B&W film loops into a thrumming riot of colour, motion and sound.
A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
