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.
Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
The second edition of the INSTAL festival broadened it’s scope to include performances from Francisco Lopez, Phil Niblock, Stefan Mathieu, Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda and John Wall.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
