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 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
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.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
John Mullarkey sets in a wider context our understanding of Alain Badiou and Francois Laruelle, two of the most radical philosophers in Europe today.
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
