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.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Includes: tamed TV snow, video feedback of racing particles, a remake of a polish photogram film destroyed in WWII, a visual and aural representation of Gestalt theory, hole-punched film and Guy Sherwin’s Cycles 3 double-projection.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
For this day-long festival, sex workers and their allies from New York, the tri-state area, and Europe will gather at MoMA PS1 to debate, perform, dance, strategize & share knowledge.
The second of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme highlights contemporary works.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
