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 double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
What’s the relationship between the eternal hum of the oceanic beloved and the persistence of vorticity in fluid dynamics? And how does Alice Coltrane’s harp help us stay there?
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
Craig will give a guided reading of his handbook of exemplary instances of literary listening and will be joined by one of the selected authors, Vanessa Place.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
