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.
An open conversation around the history and practices of the Ueinzz Theatre Company – a radical Brazilian schizoscenic theatre company of carers, so-called psychotic patients and philosophers.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”
Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
