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.
Terry is one of the most entertaining and unpredictable musicians in the London free improvising music scene. Rhodri Davies extends his instrument under a battery of techniques creating sound colours and textures quite alien to the harp.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
William cradles, hammers, and rains down blows, plucking and using 2 bows to attack the strings above and below the bridge, all in the service of a fiery and passionate creativity.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Solo by Jean-Philippe Gross, a French electro-acoustic improviser, working with mixing board, cheap mics, small speakers and an analog synth, built around a honed interest in feedback.
