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.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
How do we gesture to the invisible, the trans or the obscure? A performative conversation between boychild and Fernando, a sharing of gestures, and a bodily back and forth between mathematician and dance artist.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
The Cube is a 6 hour performed installation in which sound and image are treated as independent but equal, where musicians and filmmakers sit alongside each other, improvise to and feed off both projected image and amplified and acoustic sound.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
