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.
A Study Session focused on the thinking of Ailton Krenak – one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement – led by curators and artists Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó.
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
