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.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
What’s the relationship between the eternal hum of the oceanic beloved and the persistence of vorticity in fluid dynamics? And how does Alice Coltrane’s harp help us stay there?
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
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.
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
