9 – 13 March 2022
Online
Mutual Aid
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
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.
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14 April 2019
Performance Space New York
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
I wanna be with you everywhere
27 September 2014
Tramway
Speculum Orum
M Lamar
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
22 January 2012
CCA
The Songspiels of Chto Delat?
Chto Delat
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
13 April 2007
DCA
Keith Evans & Coelacanth
Keith Evans Loren Chasse
A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
11 October 2008
DCA
Film Programme: Bleu Shut
A kind of audience activating, structured film guessing game in the manipulation of time, sound and image. “At 11:15, weiners. At 21:05, pornography. At 23:30, a duet. Watch the Clock.”
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
21 June 2023
Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost with ASL Centered Hang
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Offering a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves. Expect fire and a little bit of smoke. Concluding with a D/deaf centered social space with conversational interpreters available for those who do not speak ASL.
I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
12 December 2004
DCA
Tabula Smaragdina
Jürgen Reble Thomas Köner
Dual projections of pulsating shards of film, treated in crystallized salts and dyes merge with the whirring of projectors, distilled into particles of sound.
Kill Your Timid Notion 04
14 April 2019
Performance Space New York
John Lee Clark
John Lee Clark
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
I wanna be with you everywhere
24 May 2013
Stereo
Hidden in Plain Sight: Club
boychild DJ Sprinkles Vjuan Allure Pony Zion
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight
14 April 2007
DCA
Surface Tension
William Raban
Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
17 April 2015
Tramway
Ueinzz Context
Ueinzz
An open conversation around the history and practices of the Ueinzz Theatre Company – a radical Brazilian schizoscenic theatre company of carers, so-called psychotic patients and philosophers.
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives