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.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
Includes: tamed TV snow, video feedback of racing particles, a remake of a polish photogram film destroyed in WWII, a visual and aural representation of Gestalt theory, hole-punched film and Guy Sherwin’s Cycles 3 double-projection.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
A programme that looks at how sound and image can be treated as variants in a collection of ordered objects; at how to create meaning from the similar, and to notice difference.
