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.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
The second in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. What does the sharing of vulnerability entail? Can such a sharing inform progressive social relations?
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
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.
