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.
Inspired by Delany’s Aye, and Gomorra. A spookily filmic world where asexual bodies live in the contradiction of their unarousable loneliness and desire for intimacy and contact.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Free Jazz group comprising Matt Lavelle, Matt Heyner (TEST, No-Neck Blues Band) and Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs).
“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub
Taku’s actions strip back musical performance to one of its original proposals: what is an action and how does it create a situation for spending time together, for paying attention?
“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
