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.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
Three intense solo performances for drums (both played and screamed through), cymbal, voice, credit card, bird whistle, and guitar amplifier/leads.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
