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 short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
The first of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme focuses on the forebearers of filmic and musical innovation over the last 70 years.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
