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.
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?
Join Brian as he ruminates on the history of how experimental filmmakers and sound artists have drifted into and taken over galleries in order to show their work.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Reveling in the geometric, mathematical and perceptual relationship between sound and form, this programme features a landmark work of experimental film in Kubelka’s Arnulf Rainer; a complex, enduring and expressive of structuralist or flicker films.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
HEAVY Japanese super group, featuring the sundown delta blues of Kan Mikami, Toshi Ishizuka’s heavy, time folding drumming and Masayoshi Urabe on sax, harmonica and chains.
A carefully thought out, simple but rich performance using just a turntable, teach yourself foreign language LP’s, the impeccable timing of a percussionist, and an idea.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
