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.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
A performative survey of listening, as we managed to find it being used as a tool in different practices, disciplines and communities in North America (music, poetry, film, philosophy, activism…).
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
A film installation as both allegory and investigation of The Rockridge Institute and their research into ‘framing’ and the use of metaphor within political discourse.
