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.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
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?
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Investigating the border between the audible and the visible means looking at the margins, the edges of creativity where artists test out new boundaries and define them anew.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
A chat, with examples (Zola, H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Horror), about blackness and the sheer stupid thickness of what has no profundity whatsoever.
Patented 60 cycle hums, static pops, and terse electron pinpricks mutated into perfect, post-techno grooves and synaesthesic video
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
