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.
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.
The second of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme highlights contemporary works.
A panel exploring the radical potential of technologies through fugitivity and opacity: their ability to obscure, to make it impossible for us to be known, to render us untraceable by every arm of the state even under the all-consuming spectre of surveillance capital.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
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.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
