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.
Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Performances at St Giles in the Fields, London by Jandek, Rhodri Davies & Angharad Davies, Rauhan Orkesteri.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
