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.
Inhabiting a different kind of energy, Ueinzz’s open rehearsals reveal a glimpse into their ongoing daily theatrical modes of caring – multiplying the ways in which their plays are meant to be felt, rather than understood.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film. Or, as Godard said: a tracking shot is a moral issue. A cross between a festival, magazine and discussion about experimental artists’ films.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
We’ll be looking at decolonising ‘global mental health’. We’ll look at the concepts of decoloniality, of things being ‘culture bound’, and at hermeneutical injustice* as ways to examine dominator knowledge systems, and the institution of psych/iatry.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
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.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
Felix Hess is a unique crosser of the boundaries between science and art. He wrote his doctorial thesis on the aerodynamics of the boomerang
