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.
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen’s trio with percussionist Andrew Barker; incessantly driving forward through sweat-drenched bursts of pure ecstatic freedom.
Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.
