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 series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface is a multi screen installation born of an intent to reveal the material substance of cinema in its purest form: spatially.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Italian duo of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio utilising an array of acoustic and electric guitars, various toy-instruments and toy-microphones.
Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
One-shot sonic portraits of 4 houses, their inhabitants and their relationship to sound, from 2 of the most deep-thinking field-recording artists around.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
