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.
Copying without Copying is 3 evenings of events that are about what happens when we speak, or when we hear someone speak on our behalf, when we share a collective moment of hearing and maybe understanding.
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
60 minutes of hard ass minimal film, projected onto a weather balloon and accompanied by the inspired poetic rant of a visionary Frenchman.
Three panels offering opportunities to discuss how to build stronger alliances between the sex workers’ rights, migrants rights and reproductive justice movements and how to face, together, an increasingly punitive and reactionary system.
A testimony to poverty from Chris’s own experiences, and an invitation to engage with an all too typical situation and context through a kind of imaginary listening.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
What is the radical concept at the core of ‘rhythm’, expanded from simply musical or mathematical notions to encompass personal, social, collective rhythms?
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
