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.
Could cruising and random public sex be the basis of an ethically organised society? A discussion with Jackie Wang, Samuel R. Delany and Huw Lemmey.
Temporary Outpost for an Auditory Gesture is a kind of performed installation that explores how sonic phenomena (like feedback, vibration, resonance, echo, rhythm) condition our experience.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Expansive and considered, inclusive and deeply human minimalism: Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Manfred Werder.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Each film in this programme celebrates process; the decay of emulsion, the properties of dust and dirt, the manipulation of time. Post the dawn of the digital age, we reflect on our love of the film form, celluloid as an object, a medium and a physical entity.
