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.
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Real-time video feedback loops submerged in laminal sheets of sound soaked in gauzy timbral detail and multi-valenced, buzzing overtones.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Three intimate 45 minute sessions, readings of your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
Individual experience separated by physical boundaries (of space, time or ability) suggested as communities of collective experience by (perhaps voyeuristic) artists.
Patented 60 cycle hums, static pops, and terse electron pinpricks mutated into perfect, post-techno grooves and synaesthesic video
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
