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.
Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
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?
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
For day two of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by the Vogue’ology collective.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?
