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.
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Expansive and considered, inclusive and deeply human minimalism: Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Manfred Werder.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Three intense solo performances for drums (both played and screamed through), cymbal, voice, credit card, bird whistle, and guitar amplifier/leads.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
Acting at the minimum. Each film here substitutes one small thing for another, (ironically) transforming received meanings by the simplest of actions; often kind of funny too.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
