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.
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
AMM have undoubtedly been among the most important contributors to the UK free improv scene for nearly 40 years and we are extremely proud to be able to be working with such distinguished musicians who still rarely play live in the UK.
Felix Hess is a unique crosser of the boundaries between science and art. He wrote his doctorial thesis on the aerodynamics of the boomerang
Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
