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.
Looking at and listening to different ideas about sound and music, INSTAL 09’s collection of artists included Tetsuo Kogawa, vocalist Joan La Barbara, Phil Minton (and his Century FC feral choir), Austrian Actionist Hermann Nitsch, Steve McCaffery and many more.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
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.
