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.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives NY by Jandek, Loren Mazzacane Connors & Alan Licht, and MV & EE.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Fernando thinks that when maths is deep, it should be simple and able to be explained by hand gestures. By embodying ideas, we’re able to more clearly think about their cultural implications.
