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.
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, the programme includes (in London at least) a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia) with a live narration by Michael Snow.
Chip’s written some of the greatest of all Sci-Fi and Fantasy—page turning character driven diamond-hard novels and short stories: each a lens that refracts our real-life struggles and desires.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
An utterly deep introspection told in aching, weeping guitar lines; melodic, simple, always minimal but somehow entirely epic.
Hartmut led “a workshop in the old-fashioned way of discussion, mutual exploration of ideas and samples; trying out what can be shared and where the fault lines show.”
