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.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Each of these films addresses place, landscape or location and the personal reaction to their magical or concrete properties. Watch out for Kren’s structural, throbbing investigation of a forest and Baillie’s intimate and humble essay on a blind guitarist and the relationship between songs of Mexican revolutionaries and the people and places they looked to inspire.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.
A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Bringing together artists working with music, sound, film and the moving image, KYTN 2008 saw performances, improvisations, screenings and installations over three days at DCA.
