Arika

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We work to celebrate and support art as it expresses communities’ desires and struggles in creating their lives and worlds together. When we say art, we mean the ways we sing and dance together, the ways we listen and want to be heard, how we look and hope to be seen, how we think of our bodies and how we move through space, things like this... These things happen wherever we are, not just in galleries or on stage. We don’t think art is a fixed place – it is a relationship, which constantly unfurls in the realm of the common. We try to work to increase the potential within and between communities who’s artistic practices help them to generate different futures together, rather than only navigate or survive them. We do this through an evolving programme of public events foregrounding performance, debate and collective learning - social spaces, which bring together allies through new, shared experiences. Through friendship and solidarity, we work within and with a local, national and international network of communities and relationships between people who struggle against many intersecting oppressions. Most recently these have included struggles and resistances to oppressions of race, sex, gender, sexuality, ability, class, or religion; lack of access to health care or safe housing, criminalisation, restricted migration; ideas of the human, the subject or the citizen. As of February 2015 and since 2001, we’ve organised 32 major projects. These have comprised about 860...