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.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
Copying without Copying is 3 evenings of events that are about what happens when we speak, or when we hear someone speak on our behalf, when we share a collective moment of hearing and maybe understanding.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
Thuja specialise in a unique and abstract folk music, a devoutly organic tapestry deeply rooted in the sway and bow of nature.
Do almost nothing: re-present (unaltered and arranged by chance) silent family home movies handed down to Flo, (Ken’s wife) and follow them with a “teach yourself Yiddish” cassette tape.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Usurper luddite twins’ disabled instruments play a game of pick-up-sticks with the deconstructed horn of a young Derby opponent.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
