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 film as a translation of Monique Wittig’s landmark feminist novel Les Guérillères, in which a plural protagonist of militant feminists inhabit a fantastical, enigmatic and hallucinatory miasmatic space-time of post Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
Performances at Anthology Film Archives NY by Jandek, Loren Mazzacane Connors & Alan Licht, and MV & EE.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Craig will give a guided reading of his handbook of exemplary instances of literary listening and will be joined by one of the selected authors, Vanessa Place.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
A mixture of investigation groups, live performances, screenings and installations at DCA; the festival looked to strip back music, sound, film and moving image to their core ideas and explore them with artists and audiences.
