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.
Expansive and considered, inclusive and deeply human minimalism: Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Manfred Werder.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Sarah Washington uses electronics and wind-up radios, running out of charge to repsond to the festivals’ Self Cancellation provocation.
Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
