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.
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Disused railway turning circle at east end of Union Terrace Gardens, a historically public space at the centre of a regeneration land-grab for the private gain of a local petro-chemical magnate.
TEST is a collective creative improvising quartet based out of the NYC Underground (figuratively and literally). Their street-hardened, spatial Jazz is riotous and intense: is also makes us think about collective organization, and different ideas of responsibility and liberty.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
A parody of a (Manhattan) road movie and meditation on bifurcation, in paths traveled between the seen and the heard; a road trip played over and over from different perspectives.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
Usurper jamming live in a skip at the site of Bud’s Neill’s Lobey Dosser statue on Woodlands Road.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
