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.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.
Individual experience separated by physical boundaries (of space, time or ability) suggested as communities of collective experience by (perhaps voyeuristic) artists.
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
