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.
Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
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.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
