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.
Includes: street portraits of kids in 1930’s Dakota, a mysterious foggy pilgrimage, a swarm of time-lapsed consumers, a stereoscopic analysis of mill life, up close and personal in a Lighting Bolt mosh pit.
Join Brian as he ruminates on the history of how experimental filmmakers and sound artists have drifted into and taken over galleries in order to show their work.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?
Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
