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.
“Introduction to Protactile Theory” is a legendary seminar that facilitator John Lee Clark has designed to bring diverse communities into conversation with the Protactile movement.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Three panels offering opportunities to discuss how to build stronger alliances between the sex workers’ rights, migrants rights and reproductive justice movements and how to face, together, an increasingly punitive and reactionary system.
Organised by Twiggy Pucci Garcon and Pony Zion, The Masters Ball focuses on the work of 50 individuals designated within the scene as ‘masters’ in their respective performance categories, which include Vogue, Runway, and Face.
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
