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.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
A parody of a (Manhattan) road movie and meditation on bifurcation, in paths traveled between the seen and the heard; a road trip played over and over from different perspectives.
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 spectacular musical show which discusses the representation of a nation state, its characters and history. A learning play on myth construction and its reproduction.
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
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.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
