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.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
