Arika  Archive Menu
Accessibility Settings

text size

colour options

monochrome muted color dark

reading tools

isolation ruler

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.

Filter the Archive
Suggested Searches

All Archive (712)

Order by
Jandek on stage wearing a hat & playing an electric guitar
17 October 2004
The Arches

Jandek

Alex Neilson Jandek Richard Youngs

Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.

INSTAL 04
Mick Flower and Matt Valentine play guitar my two amplifiers
17 February 2008
The Arches

Golden Cherry Ball

MV & EE The Cherry Blossoms

An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.

INSTAL 08
People sitting around a table listening and talking
22 October 2016
Tramway

Captive Genders – Criminalisation

Che Gossett English Collective of Prostitutes Eric A Stanley Scot-Pep/ Umbrella Lane Tourmaline

What is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
A B&W shot of M Lamar prostrate and seemingly screaming
27 September 2014
Tramway

Speculum Orum

M Lamar

A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
Current 93 on stage at INSTAL 04
16 October 2004
The Arches

Current 93

Current 93

One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.

INSTAL 04
10 March 2025

Week One: Welcome Session

Lisa Fannen Sapna Agarwal

In this welcoming first session we will look at the basics of using plant medicine – things you might have in your kitchen or easily to hand. We will introduce preparation methods, contraindications, dosages & remedies for common ailments.

In Our Hands 2025
Tony Conrad, Angarad Davies, Nikos Veliotis and Mark Wastel performing
17 February 2006
DCA

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plane

Angharad Davies Mark Wastell Nikos Veliotis Tony Conrad

A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
A scanned picture of a B-52 and its ordinance laid out in the desert
22 January 2012
GFT

B-52

Hartmut Bitomsky

Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
Diamanda Galas singing at a piano on stage at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Diamanda Galás

Diamanda Galás

Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Miss Major waves regally from an open top car at a Pride parade, she is surrounded by other Pride marchers with banners and placards.
13 March 2022
Online

Chosen Kin: Making Our Loyalties

Mai’a Williams Miss Major Claricia Revlon

How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?

Mutual Aid
Several rows of audience members smile and one has a hand raised
17 April 2014
The New School

Ballroom Town Hall Meeting

Various Artists

Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.

Master Ballstar Weekend
Arika_ASIAPOL_Whitney2012_Ultra-red_GeorgeLewis_Photo_BMcIntyre-22
2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Ultra-red George Lewis

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 survey is a process of listening
?
This site uses cookies for analytics. See our Privacy Policy for more. OK Opt out
×