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.
Introducing and setting intentions for a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves.
Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface is a multi screen installation born of an intent to reveal the material substance of cinema in its purest form: spatially.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film. Or, as Godard said: a tracking shot is a moral issue. A cross between a festival, magazine and discussion about experimental artists’ films.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
