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 community of those without community, for a community to come. A schizo-scenic video-collage of the disturbing ‘normality’ of Moby Dick.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
An extravagant debauch of plush toys and ritual. Palestine performed a version of Strumming Music, a trance inducing investigation into overtone systems achievable on a Bosendorfer Imperial Piano.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
With lo-fi dreams and high-def humor, Bande brings MC vibes to the day. Interluding music with spoken performance, the live extimacy of Bande’s presence reaches out via emo-techno-bridges.
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Temporary Outpost for an Auditory Gesture is a kind of performed installation that explores how sonic phenomena (like feedback, vibration, resonance, echo, rhythm) condition our experience.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
