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.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
A film as a translation of Monique Wittig’s landmark feminist novel Les Guérillères, in which a plural protagonist of militant feminists inhabit a fantastical, enigmatic and hallucinatory miasmatic space-time of post Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
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.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
A mixture of investigation groups, live performances, screenings and installations at DCA; the festival looked to strip back music, sound, film and moving image to their core ideas and explore them with artists and audiences.
