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.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
A performed reflection on Malin’s previous re-enacting of a super influential landmark of performance art from the French feminist and artist Gina Pane.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
CCI Sound system: a performance in which new material will be mixed and phased between two huge PA’s, one a precise Meyer system, the other a huge wall of Marshall amps
Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
