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.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
A film as a translation of Monique Wittig’s landmark feminist novel Les Guérillères, in which a plural protagonist of militant feminists inhabit a fantastical, enigmatic and hallucinatory miasmatic space-time of post Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Underlying radical transfeminism, as an urgent critique of binary essentialism and fixed identities, is the call for a new kind of thinking that can move between and integrate the truths of all lives in their transformations.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Andrew Chalk & Christoph Heemann return with their diaphanous, impressionistic drone duo; their slowly evolving and enthralling works flutter and quiver with elegantly restrained, miniature sound events.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
The Truth and Lies book project emerges as part of a rising tide of sex worker art and organised struggle to end criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work.
