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.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
Taking The Futurist Cinema’ manifesto and turning it into software to track ‘aluminium’ online, tracing relationships companies with interests in aluminum had to each other and other agencies.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.
Join activists, academics and artists as they reflect on abolitionist praxis and thought, exploring covergences with gender, poetry, technology, performance, speculation, aesthetics, film and culture. This series of events commemorates Black August and is for anyone who wishes to answer the abolitionist call to action and thought.
