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.
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
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.
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
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.
The second edition of the INSTAL festival broadened it’s scope to include performances from Francisco Lopez, Phil Niblock, Stefan Mathieu, Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda and John Wall.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
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.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
