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.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Hijokaidan rapidly built a following due to the overwhelmingly physical intensity of their live performances, often involving destructive onstage rituals of vomit, urine, mangled guitars and ear shredding volume.
Listening to people listening to their own homes. Musicians and actors will listen back to recordings made in local peoples homes on headphones, and interpret/ translate what they are hearing.
Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.
One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
