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.
Opening with one of the most memorable shots ever filmed, and screened a year after the initial successes of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Too Soon, Too Late is a search for the traces left on the landscape of past revolutions in France and Egypt.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival
I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.
A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.
Morgan Fisher is a filmmaker of great wit and charm who uses the tools of experimental film to dissect the basic presuppositions of commercial cinema.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
