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.
Beatriz will explore her thinking, on film as translation, plural subjectivity or land-based militancy. Discussion will centre around her work Oriana and its companion piece Oenanthe, which will be screened in full.
Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
An open collaborative workshop space in which games, warm-up sessions, exercises and scenes are potentially the same thing, through which to project your own concerns onto the stage.
Free-jazz chat with Sabir Mateen, Daniel Cater, Andrew Barker – hosted by Byron Coley.
