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.
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
