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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.
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Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James