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.
Against Inclusion
Dean Spade Eric A Stanley Mujeres Creando
What does it mean to resist seeking assimilation or inclusion within, or let our demands be co-opted by the very systems we seek to dismantle?
Speculative Solution
Florian Hecker
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Entangling history, phenomenology, metaphysics, culture, and mathematics: the model RTSK
Fernando Zalamea
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
Joan La Barbara
Joan La Barbara
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
Century FC
Phil Minton
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
Translation
Achim Wollscheid Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
Moved by the Motion
boychild TOTAL FREEDOM Wu Tsang
Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.
I wanna be with you everywhere
I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.
Charles Curtis & Raha Raissnia
Charles Curtis Raha Raissnia
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
Tony Conrad: The Flicker
Tony Conrad
One of the most startling cinematic debuts on record, The Flicker is more a hallucination than a film, an out of body experience and riotous celebration of visual harmonics frequencies. An experiment in perception, come with your mind and eyes open.
Declarative Mode (1976 – 1977)
Paul Sharits
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.