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.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
In Our Hands is a ten week programme of workshops facilitated by Lisa Fannen, Omikemi and Clay. The sessions explore radical approaches to health and collective care in the context of movement for liberation and social justice.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
William cradles, hammers, and rains down blows, plucking and using 2 bows to attack the strings above and below the bridge, all in the service of a fiery and passionate creativity.
We’ll be looking at reframing trauma, how we might understand trauma in the bodymindsoul, taking a look at the physiology of trauma, forms of trauma, and at ways to mitigate and heal trauma.
