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.
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
This programme takes human subjects as the focus for sound and image construction. And it includes a couple of masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
Talk charting the radical history of experimental music in Japan + the lowdown into the careers of many of the artists appearing at MLFC.
