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.
What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
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.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Reveling in the geometric, mathematical and perceptual relationship between sound and form, this programme features a landmark work of experimental film in Kubelka’s Arnulf Rainer; a complex, enduring and expressive of structuralist or flicker films.
Philip Jeck creates slowly evolving symphonies that are as much about the crackling hiss of old vinyl as the actual ‘musical’ material.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
