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 back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
Three panels offering opportunities to discuss how to build stronger alliances between the sex workers’ rights, migrants rights and reproductive justice movements and how to face, together, an increasingly punitive and reactionary system.
A conversation between influential figures thinking through Blackness and Indigeneity, asking: what if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come?
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
Do almost nothing: re-present (unaltered and arranged by chance) silent family home movies handed down to Flo, (Ken’s wife) and follow them with a “teach yourself Yiddish” cassette tape.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
