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.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
An evening of live performances, readings & saucy rococo cakes celebrating the launch of Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
