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.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
A glance at both analogue and digital processes; the clarity and precision of digital colour or the yawning, endless depth of dye and emulsion, our programme celebrates how both approaches revel in colour, saturation, hue and tone.
Acting at the minimum. Each film here substitutes one small thing for another, (ironically) transforming received meanings by the simplest of actions; often kind of funny too.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
