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 do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
A changing pool of people (40 or so at a time – artists, audiences, etc) talk for 90 minutes in a simultaneous series of open-ended round-table discussions, structured like speed dating, and mixed live as both a concert and for radio broadcast.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Three iconic figures from the Japanese underground assembled as a trio to stand in for the advertised duo of Junko and Jerome Noetinger who was unable to attend the festival due to illness.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
