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 performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
