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.
Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
A riot of 60’s psychedelia, magick, ritual and tight black leather, this programme highlights underground innovators who use and subvert pop music for their own experimental ends; and be warned, in Anger, there’s real darkness.
A collaborative duo performance, Anoyonodekigoto sets up a sort of negotiation between a musician, a dancer, the audience and the space we’re all sharing.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
