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.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Screening of films by Duvet Brothers, David Critchley, David Hall, John Latham, Judith Goddard, Mike Leggett, Tony Sinden
Offering a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves. Expect fire and a little bit of smoke. Concluding with a D/deaf centered social space with conversational interpreters available for those who do not speak ASL.
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.
