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The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
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.
 
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
 
 
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
 
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
 
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
 
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
 
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
 
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
 
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
 
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
 
In Our Hands is a ten week programme of workshops facilitated by Lisa Fannen, Omikemi and Clay. The sessions explore radical approaches to health and collective care in the context of movement for liberation and social justice.
 
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.