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.
“Introduction to Protactile Theory” is a legendary seminar that facilitator John Lee Clark has designed to bring diverse communities into conversation with the Protactile movement.
Copying without Copying is 3 evenings of events that are about what happens when we speak, or when we hear someone speak on our behalf, when we share a collective moment of hearing and maybe understanding.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
An immersive live performance for multiple 16mm film and bass clarinet, taking in the whole gallery, submerging the audience.
A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
An open-ended moment in an ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions they share. A “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.”
