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.
One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest
The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
Felix Hess is a unique crosser of the boundaries between science and art. He wrote his doctorial thesis on the aerodynamics of the boomerang
