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.
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
Nothing if not repetitive, film is founded on the incremental succession of minute difference. But how does repetition of the same play out, and is it a tool to comment on the standardising repetition of the mass media?
Can a musician create a sonic photograph; something with a depth of field, where you can hear sounds and their interconnections, much as you see objects and their relationships in a photo? Could a filmmaker use musical concepts to represent landscape?
Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
