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.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
Lo-fidelity sheets of parinirvanic mangled tone get driven into oblivion by two longstanding gurus of the Northern England primitivist noise.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.
An open-ended moment in an ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions they share. A “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.”
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.
