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.
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
A socio-poetic reading on wayward communities – The wayward create upheavals, incite tumult. They come and go as they please; they are fugitive; they are in open rebellion against society.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Do ideas emerging from particle physics help to re-think of blackness as a mode of life in which it’s possible to practice difference without separation?
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.
