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.
Everyday objects and materials (rubber bands, paper, a sink, microphones) disabused of their inertia and made to speak for themselves in a kind of focusing in on the tiny, repetitive, almost unobserved (sonic/ visual) potential of everyday things put into motion.
An evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers
Expect slutty DJs, playful performances, stripper poles, rococo cakes, union broads and intimate readings…
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Solo by Jean-Philippe Gross, a French electro-acoustic improviser, working with mixing board, cheap mics, small speakers and an analog synth, built around a honed interest in feedback.
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
A fulcrum to the Japanese noise scene, JOJO Hiroshige has been responsible for much of the explosion of free music coming from Japan in the last 30 years.
