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.
Disused railway turning circle at east end of Union Terrace Gardens, a historically public space at the centre of a regeneration land-grab for the private gain of a local petro-chemical magnate.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
One of the most startling cinematic debuts on record, The Flicker is more a hallucination than a film, an out of body experience and riotous celebration of visual harmonics frequencies. An experiment in perception, come with your mind and eyes open.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
