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.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, the programme includes (in London at least) a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia) with a live narration by Michael Snow.
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
An open-ended moment in an ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions they share. A “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.”
60 minutes of hard ass minimal film, projected onto a weather balloon and accompanied by the inspired poetic rant of a visionary Frenchman.
