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.
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Thirty lucky Instal punters experience Kylie’s pre-match aggro workout one-on-one in the darkness of an Arches dressing room.
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
