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.
Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.
The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
