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.
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
The final iteration of Arika’s INSTAL festivals, the 2010 edition was an experimental festival of experimental music – 3 days of events at the Tramway that explored un-average ideas about sound and music.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
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.
