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.
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
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.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
