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.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
Film and sound stripped of ‘content’ and experienced spatially, to be looked at not on the screen but in the space of the gallery
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Three iconic figures from the Japanese underground assembled as a trio to stand in for the advertised duo of Junko and Jerome Noetinger who was unable to attend the festival due to illness.
Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
