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.
A performed self-cancelling discussion, with artists from the festival, invited speakers and local artists talking at once, over each other, or straining to be heard over the din.
The second in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. What does the sharing of vulnerability entail? Can such a sharing inform progressive social relations?
When one calls a strike, who hears the call, who attunes and listens to it? How to listen to the call of a strike? What prevents one from hearing this call or stops one from listening to it?
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
