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.
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
With a signature spartan sound and long term preoccupation in structural tactics (subtle shifts in density, drawn out stasis) Polwechsel blur the boundaries between individual instruments.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
