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 mixture of investigation groups, live performances, screenings and installations at DCA; the festival looked to strip back music, sound, film and moving image to their core ideas and explore them with artists and audiences.
Two bottomless brunch writing workshops—with readings—speculating the relationship between space, infrastructure, technologies and sex.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
