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.
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
The Truth and Lies book project emerges as part of a rising tide of sex worker art and organised struggle to end criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.
Slowly evolving ultra-subtle harmonics and multi-tracked, otherworldly drones that only reveal their true power at high volume.
Sound as it is endured by space and the body: 15 participants lie face down and pound the floor with a microphone one thousand times, each person choosing their own rhythm and intensity.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
