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.
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
A changing pool of people (40 or so at a time – artists, audiences, etc) talk for 90 minutes in a simultaneous series of open-ended round-table discussions, structured like speed dating, and mixed live as both a concert and for radio broadcast.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Three intense solo performances for drums (both played and screamed through), cymbal, voice, credit card, bird whistle, and guitar amplifier/leads.
Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
