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.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Finnish duo Grönlund Nisunen are known for their extraordinary work fusing incredible sounds with stunning objects in large scale sculptural installations.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
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.
