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 communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
A socio-poetic reading on wayward communities – The wayward create upheavals, incite tumult. They come and go as they please; they are fugitive; they are in open rebellion against society.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
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.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.
