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.
Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.
I wanna be with you everywhere is an everywhere gathering envisioned for and by disability communities and anyone who wants to get with us. IWBWYE returns to Performance Space and any space on June 21 for an outdoor pop-up and hybridized event.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
