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.
Haunted by the archive of the New Cross Fire, Jay Bernard presents a film and poetry reading that undertakes a queer exploration of black British history, reconstructed from archives and apparent debris.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything.
A full-blooded, emotional attempt to reinvigorate improvisation from a musically inclined philosopher and two philosophically inclined improvisers.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
For day five of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will review the previous work undertaken together, and perhaps draw up a summary of reflections and pose some future questions.
An open conversation around the history and practices of the Ueinzz Theatre Company – a radical Brazilian schizoscenic theatre company of carers, so-called psychotic patients and philosophers.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
