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.
In this interactive workshop, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid, will share key principles, explore common challenges in mutual aid work, and offer tools for working through them.
An immersive live performance for multiple 16mm film and bass clarinet, taking in the whole gallery, submerging the audience.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Listening to people listening to their own homes. Musicians and actors will listen back to recordings made in local peoples homes on headphones, and interpret/ translate what they are hearing.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
One of the great experimental films. A 60 minute, three part riddle that maybe approximates our intellectual development by moving from imageless words to the recognition of silent images and the learning of simple tasks and finally a serenity and acceptance of death.
