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.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
A sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue – a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
