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 discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
A series of badly felted lock-ups and garages + multiple locations within the Megastructure – a purpose built town centre in one building, comprising (in the 50’s at least) of housing (never occupied), shops, apartments, a hotel, ice rink, police station and other amenities
Kylie Minoise Vs Nackt Insecten feedback/ vocal physical threat ‘vs’ ecstatic electronic cloudbursts
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
Each film in this programme celebrates process; the decay of emulsion, the properties of dust and dirt, the manipulation of time. Post the dawn of the digital age, we reflect on our love of the film form, celluloid as an object, a medium and a physical entity.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
An evening of live performances, readings & saucy rococo cakes celebrating the launch of Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
A whistle stop tour of visual and material culture that has anchored the sex workers rights movement through the decades until today.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
