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.
Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.
A conversation of intergenerational trans-resistance and anti-racist fierceness between two of the most inspiring public speakers we know.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Terry is one of the most entertaining and unpredictable musicians in the London free improvising music scene. Rhodri Davies extends his instrument under a battery of techniques creating sound colours and textures quite alien to the harp.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
