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.
Performing with hand built radio transmitters, which react to interference in the atmosphere and the electrical impedance of his hands, his radio art is a form of social practice; a statement in opposition to mass media.
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?
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Multiple images, glimpses of old films, abstract images in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops & analogue synthesizers
