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.
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’
Dual projections of pulsating shards of film, treated in crystallized salts and dyes merge with the whirring of projectors, distilled into particles of sound.
