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.
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A whistle stop tour of visual and material culture that has anchored the sex workers rights movement through the decades until today.
Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
UNINSTAL was a set of events at Tramway that tested out radical ideas with leading local and international artists. A collection of events (performances, films, installations, walks and talks) about sound and listening.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Two figureheads of the minimalist electronica pulse, Ikeda and Nicolai have been responsible for some of the most innovative and ground-breaking music of the last decade, redefining experimental electronica.
