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 cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
Chris Corsano, Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in the Hamilton Mausoleum, Hamilton.
A film as a translation of Monique Wittig’s landmark feminist novel Les Guérillères, in which a plural protagonist of militant feminists inhabit a fantastical, enigmatic and hallucinatory miasmatic space-time of post Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.
An open-ended moment in an ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions they share. A “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.”
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
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?).
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
