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.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in the exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, named after the ‘central region’ of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain’s two hemispheres.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
A new interpretation of Kosugi’s Catch-Wave, producing a cloud of fluctuating, hypnotic drones, in front of a backdrop of projected waves.
Amid the blur of erotics, the jangle of poetics, and the fetishizing of sickness and disability, the heat of Panteha’s performance and sculpture freezes all.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
