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.
Bruno’s liberated improvisational approach stretches beyond the lyrical, tough as nails rhythmic bursts and expressive, swinging attack of his drumming.
Lo-fidelity sheets of parinirvanic mangled tone get driven into oblivion by two longstanding gurus of the Northern England primitivist noise.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Radical transfeminism aims to hold the space for finding relations between the ruins of the everyday. Emerging from the debris, spaces for politics find form as poetics to carry understandings, actions and be/longings.
