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.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
What does it mean to resist seeking assimilation or inclusion within, or let our demands be co-opted by the very systems we seek to dismantle?
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Individual experience separated by physical boundaries (of space, time or ability) suggested as communities of collective experience by (perhaps voyeuristic) artists.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
