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.
Emotional fantasies, towers of cakes, identity troubles, collapsed distance and time and Samuel R. Delany’s rarely seen 1971 film The Orchid.
The Tower performance at KYTN throws into that mix the 70’s fluxus light shows and films of Jeff Perkins and other filmic interventions tuned to their unique frequency.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
Multiple images, glimpses of old films, abstract images in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops & analogue synthesizers
An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
