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.
Has neoliberal capitalism locked down social experience? Are our seemingly subjective desires, our identities, pre-packaged by dominating social structures?
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
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?
Beatriz will explore her thinking, on film as translation, plural subjectivity or land-based militancy. Discussion will centre around her work Oriana and its companion piece Oenanthe, which will be screened in full.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Recently rediscovered but still very pertinent, Kino Beleške presents a series of speech acts and performative gestures by protagonists of the new artistic practice in former Yugoslavia: each a personal take on the role of art in society.
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
